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RANGER, is a true tale of war told by Sergeant David Waterhouse recalling his service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seen through the eyes of a Special Operations soldier, this first hand account documents the brutality of combat, and the raw nature of killing and death. It's a journey of innocence lost and the scars of war etched into the minds of service members. An untold account everyone should hear.—Sean James Spencer
Jean, the latest recruit, has no choice but to wait, endure and hold the front line.
With the help from reconstructions and memories, several people recall the fateful days when the German warship 'Altmark' carried British prisoners of war in Norwegian waters, prior to Hitler's decision to have Norway occupied.
This film is an analogy between life and war. Influenced by our news, the war in the world. We created a film mixing the blooming of orchids, and the development of nature with a sound atmosphere of war.
A highly personal journey into the recent history of a war-torn land. Pratt has covered decades of conflict in Iraq and now travels from Erbil to Mosul, charting the country’s active political faultlines and meeting old friends
Lucy Raven's Demolition of a Wall (Album 1) is the second film in her trilogy of "Westerns." In American cinema, the Western has traditionally celebrated the expansionist myth that the region is somehow primal or untouched. Raven, by contrast, engages with a West that–while still dramatic in its natural beauty–has been industrialized, militarized, and colonized. She filmed this work at an explosives range in New Mexico that is typically employed as a test site by the US Departments of Defense and Energy and private munitions companies. Notably, it is close to Los Alamos, a national laboratory known for its role in the development of the nuclear bomb. Using a variety of cameras and imaging techniques, Raven captures the trajectory of the pressure-blast shockwaves that move through the atmosphere in the wake of an explosion. [Overview courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art]
As Russian troops were crossing into Ukraine, Andrii Bondarenko wrote a play that looks back on a life bookended by conflict. Two weeks after Russia invaded his country, acclaimed playwright Bondarenko focused on the life he has lived. A peaceful childhood had followed bloodshed. And now, in adulthood, he faced the threat that previous generations of his family had witnessed. These thoughts took form in a one-act play, written in response to events as they were unfolding. To accompany this filmed version of the play, directors Myro Klochko and Anatoliy Tatarenko draws on photographs from Bondarenko's life, conjuring up the people who have populated it and, by extension, the people of Ukraine. The result is an act of artistic expression, of remembrance and, ultimately, of resistance.
The actions of war that took place along the Garberg river in Selbu in the spring days of 1940. Here, Swedes and Norwegians fought together against the German occupying power.
Sequel to Fəryad (1993). The film tells the story of Azerbaijani victory in the 44-day Patriotic War for the lands of Karabakh, which the Armenian invaders had occupied for nearly 30 years.
France, 1944. Escaped American prisoners of war trek their way through occupied France in a desperate bid to reach Allied lines.
The film comprises of an intense psychological experiment which was undertaken by students of a local acting college. The results were unsettling and genuinely disturbing.
Gino Bartali’s legacy endures far beyond his three Giro d’Italia and two Tour de France victories. He was a true hero of cycling, but it was only after his death that it became known that he was also a genuine war hero. He rarely spoke about the sacrifice he had made, and very few people knew that he had smuggled fake identity papers for Italian Jews in his bicycle frame. During his daily "training rides" on the gravel roads between Florence and Assisi, he repeatedly put himself in danger.
Two Trees in Jerusalem, an animated documentary produced by Humanity in Action, profiles the remarkable history of Eberhard and Donata Helmrich, who together saved the lives of countless Jews during the Holocaust. The pair worked as a husband-and-wife team in the eye of the storm, in Berlin and the blood-soaked fields of Eastern Europe, devising ever-more daring gambits to save any life they could, even as death surrounded them. The history is dramatically narrated by the couple’s daughter Cornelia, who was called into her parents’ confidence as a young child, and was imbued with an inner-strength that guided her work decades later as a journalist, politician and as the Federal Comissioner for Foreigner’s Affairs.
1935. Young Red Army soldier Hong Qichen receives his orders: destroy the enemy's ammunition depot within 48 hours. It is, in all likelihood, a death sentence. Gathering his wounded comrades through treacherous mountain terrain, he leads them against overwhelming odds — while confronting their anguished questioning of why they should give their lives at all, and watching as they fall, one by one.
Two opponents battle in a time-spanning epic chess game that may cost them their lives.
Ukraine after February 24, 2022. There is a war going on. Two journalists attempt to highlight the extent of the destruction and suffering while staying alive. By chance, they meet a confused woman whose story symbolizes an unfolding national drama.
23 Cents Soldier is shaped around the memories of four Turkish and three Korean war veterans. The interviews begin with the lives of the veterans before the beginning of the war and continue with memories of the war and post-war era.
After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, generations of veterans seek solace in their rural hometown. Jonah Greenstein’s patient, exquisite shots examine enduring community traditions, and reveal the inwardness of private lives.
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has changed the lives of every Ukrainian. Formerly bankers, IT workers, cultural figures and others have become military personnel and volunteers, people resisting the greatest threat to peaceful life in all of Europe.
A party game in which players compete for a decreasing number of chairs, the losers in successive rounds being those unable to find a chair to sit on when the accompanying music is stopped.
My Father’s War, an animated documentary produced by Humanity in Action, brings to life the experiences of Peter Hein and his son David Hein. As a Jewish toddler in the Netherlands in the 1940s, Peter was separated from his parents and whisked from hiding place to hiding place to escape deportation. From feigning scarlet fever to avoid a Nazi raid, to suffering crippling injuries during a bombing campaign, Peter somehow survives, one day at a time, even as capture and death surround him. Meanwhile, the film also follows Peter’s parents, who themselves must make a series of daring escapes as their hiding places are revealed to Nazi forces by Dutch collaborators. By the end of the war, when Peter and his parents are finally reunited, Peter cannot even recognize them. “I just saw a strange man with long black hair and a little woman who was crying and trying to kiss me. I didn’t want anything from them,” Peter recalls in the film.
Bill Hemmer explores the tanks, planes, and boats that make up the Russian invasion force. After the collapse of the USSR, the Russian war machine rusted away. That bear is back and it's leaner and meaner.
During the first days after the 1973 coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then-political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into a group called the “Dawsonianas.”
A young soldier tries to survive with his sister in a world devastated by war.
Death is the end of all humans, but humans can always have choice and all these choices make the meaning of life difference. When Mok was interviewed by Lok, the trenches had been attacked by enemy air force. After surviving in the air raid, the same words changes its meaning. Then two of them choose a different way to die with a different thought.
A short film investigating the negative effects of social solitude caused by New Zealand's 2020 COVID lockdown. A peep into the mind of director Daniel Melville's personal life.
This TV documentary offers a poignant look at the partially destroyed bridge from Irpin to Kyiv, which has become a lifeline for people being evacuated from the war-torn city of Irpin. Irpin is a city in Ukraine, in the Kyiv region, located on the banks of the Irpin River, eight kilometers from the capital. As the war continues, Irpin has become one of the most dangerous places in Ukraine, while the partially destroyed bridge has become a lifeline for residents. People evacuated from Irpin are taken by car to the destroyed part of the bridge, while others walk across the river to reach the Kyiv side and continue on to safer areas. The day before March 13, when US and Ukrainian journalists were killed in Irpin, an LTV film crew was at the bridge. Currently, international media are no longer allowed into the city.
A man in Donbas sets out on a combat mission as the violent ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russian-supported separatists wages on.
When Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of February, the world was shocked, but few could imagine the barbarity that the Kremlin regime would unleash against the Ukrainian nation. This documentary presents an insight and eyewitness accounts from the crimes.
Dave Evans was a renowned prosthetist, humanitarian and peace activist. A double amputee himself, he dedicated his post-military career to transforming lives shattered by these seemingly never-ending, interchangeable wars. From Syrian refugees in a prosthetics clinic in Amman, Jordan, to the fallout of war in places like Iraq, Dave chose a life of service to others.
Inspired by the idea that the Unknown Soldier might be their (great) great grandfather, a group of children from Brussels with different roots fantasizes about the adventures of their ancestors in World War I.
In the spring of 2022, the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was surrounded by Russian troops. They were using the weapons of mass destruction against the civilian population every day. In mid-March volunteers started evacuating people from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia. They gathered after each trip to exchange the information, support each other, and talk about their traumatic experiences.
It has already been 100 days since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the occupying troops are not going to retreat and are intensifying their horrific attacks in Donbas.
It is now the ninth month since Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is ruthlessly trying to occupy it. The Ukrainians' fighting spirit and love for their country, however, are irrepressible – they fiercely resist and drive the Russians out of the cities they've temporarily taken. Unfortunately, the occupying forces have left horror, misery and scars behind them.
A short film that describes the life of Ukrainian queer people during the war. It shows how they are fighting for their freedom. The world has to hear the voices of the Ukrainian LGBTQIA+ community and to know how ruinous this war is for queer people.
War transforms public space, turning the sky from a peaceful sight into a symbol of threat. The film uses found footage to depict this shift, showing peaceful and military skies from dawn to dawn. It includes sounds from military radio stations UVB-76 and Kraplia, highlighting the continuity from the Cold War to the current political tensions in Ukraine.
During the Second World War, Stockholm was the Casablanca of the Nordics. A place where information was everything. Swedish intelligence's most important spy was a 22-year-old German secretary and art student called Erika Wendt. A girl whose dream was of a life in Sweden with her boyfriend after the war. Then in 1943, Erika was invited to dinner by her German boss and suddenly ordered back to Berlin. Did the Gestapo know about her double life? This film is based on an actual event.
𝙰 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚞𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚐𝚎
The film, made by colleagues in the TV3 News Service – Ieva Vārna, cameramen Sergejs Medvedevs and Dzintars Rudzītis – collects materials filmed in Ukraine a few days before the Russian full-scale invasion, as well as events in the first weeks of the war. It's a collection of stories by people about the horrors of the war caused by Russia, becoming refugees and standing for the freedom of their homeland in spite of the atrocities done by the occupiers.
Examines the story of Bosnian War refugees fleeing to St. Louis, Missouri, which is now home to more displaced Bosnians than any other city in the world. In 1992, with the Bosnian War raging, thousands of Bosnians sought refuge in America. Chosen because of its affordable housing and available jobs, a large number of those Bosnians ended up in St. Louis, Missouri. Once there, they began assimilating, starting their own businesses, and transforming a once dilapidated neighborhood into a thriving "Little Bosnia." Over the ensuing three decades, an estimated 70,000 Bosnians have migrated to St. Louis, making it the most inhabited area for Bosnians outside of Bosnia itself. A New Home tells the story of these refugees' perseverance and determination to not only start life over but prosper. — Joseph Puleo
A veteran war reporter finds peace of mind in the Highlands of Scotland.
The documentary reveals the life of Ukrainians and their relentless struggle for the independence of the country in the most threatened sectors of the front.
Ukraine, 2022. Yulia learns from her friend that the evacuation from the city has begun. Quickly packing her things, she finds a box with Lego. She accidentally hits her head, and upon regaining consciousness, she discovers that the Lego man Carter can talk. Carter begins to tell Yulia about his plans for a military takeover of the Lego world.
