Before, during and after World War II, governments around the globe produced copious propaganda films. These are true moments of world history, the attitudes of the people, the visual and audio recording of what occurred.
Before, during and after World War II, governments around the globe produced copious propaganda films. These are true moments of world history, the attitudes of the people, the visual and audio recording of what occurred.
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a satellite view of the conflict, allowing you to experience it in a way that puts key events and tipping points in a global perspective. By re-creating groundbreaking moments that could never have been captured on camera, and by illustrating the importance of simultaneity and the hidden effects of crucial incidents, HISTORY presents the war's monumental moments in a never-before-seen context. And with new information brought to the forefront, you'll better understand how a nation ranked 19th in the world's militaries in 1939 emerged six years later as the planet's only atomic superpower.
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจมาจากเรื่องจริง ซึ่ง เคยเป็นที่จับตามองของสื่อทั่วโลก พล ปืนคนสุดท้าย เป็นภาพยนตร์ชีวิตที่ทั้ง ซาบซึ้งและอบอุ่น ว่าด้วย อาร์ตี้ ครอว์ฟ อร์ด (เพียร์ซ บรอสแนน) ทหารผ่านศึก สงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง วัย 92 ปี กับอีก เก้าเดือน ที่ได้ข่าวจากบ้านพักคนชรา ของเขาว่ามีพิธีรำลึกครบรอบ 75 ปีที่ นอร์มังดี เมื่อเขาตั้งใจจะเข้าร่วม อาร์ตี้ ได้เสี่ยงวางแผนหนีออกจากบ้านพักคน ชรา และเดินหน้าสู่การเดินทางที่สร้าง แรงบันดาลใจครั้งสำคัญในชีวิตสู่ ฝรั่งเศส เพื่อแสดงความเคารพต่ออดีต กรมทหารของเขาเป็นครั้งสุดท้าย
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".