Dramatized biopic of Andrew Pereiro, a Spaniard who fought during World War II in the ranks of the 29th Infantry Division of the US Army, the famous Blue and Gray. Andrea Pereiro, as a child, traveled to the United States with his mother, escaping the Spanish Civil War, to reunite with his father who had already been there for some time.
Victim of a terrible plot, Captain Dreyfus was sentenced in December 1894 to deportation for high treason. His wife Lucie made a pact with him: to live, whatever the cost, while awaiting rehabilitation. During five years, the Dreyfus spouses exchanged hundreds of letters. They became a weapon of survival for Alfred. This film is the story of the correspondence of a man and a woman who unwittingly became the unsung heroes of the case that bears their name.
In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished, and the White officers in charge were protected by the chain of command.
During the Anti Japanese War (Second Sino-Japanese War), Chen fool joined the Eighth Route Army in order to earn money and marry his wife, and was assigned to Class Two of the Third Company. He is well known as an idiot, is totally incompetent, can't distinguish left or right, He fails to learn how to shoot, and fails to retreat jeopardizing the risk of death for his comrade, and foiling his squad leader plan. He is deemed useless and is the laughing stock of the army. His only advantage is his strong physique and a big stature, thereby he is only assigned a cooking position in the army and only do trite errands suitable for his physique and strength. One eventful day when Chen fool goes to the battlefield to deliver food and meets the Imperial Japanese army, where he is asked to help his comrades fight the devil. An event that will earn him the title, "the brave bombardier", a revolutionary hero, and gain the deserved respect from his comrades and leader.
Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.
"In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called "The War Prayer." His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too inflammatory for the times. Twain agreed, but instructed that it be published after his death, saying famously: None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth."
This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s railroads to the war effort. The film includes a sequence from Buster Keaton's 1926 silent comedy The General, as well as a re-enactment of Lord Strathcona driving the final spike into the Canadian Pacific Railway Line.
This short passion project delves deep into the trauma surrounding recent political strife. A fight over trust and purpose breaks out in the rubble of a post-apocalyptic town.
The naïve Maris joins the Wehrmacht during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic states, together with his brother and several others from the village. The barracks are in a monastery, and Maris – whom everyone views as a fool – seems to consider his fate a religious calling. Until his eyes are opened by the soldiers’ misbehaviour, and he takes it upon himself to save a young woman.
A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York.
Mina (8), a Kurdish girl raised in Norway, has indirectly become a victim of the war on terror. She knows more about the situation than the adults think.
After the novelette of the same name of Huseyn Abbaszadeh. The film is about friends' meeting who fought together as a partisans in Belorussian detached force.
A story of a three friends childhood in the sieged during WWII Leningrad.
Depicting the celebrated recapture of the town of Yogyakarta from Dutch forces in March 1949, by Indonesian youth of the resistance and members of the Indonesian army. Although it was held only for a few hours, it resulted in a UN resolution calling on the Dutch to leave.
During WWII Red Army sailor suddenly gets to German underwater swimmers secret base...
