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It centers on the ethical and moral dilemma of a gudari (soldier) who is torn between continuing his duty as a soldier, or to abandon his position and comrades and return home with his wife.
After a failed conquest, Emperor Ajaatshatru pretends to be a soldier in the enemy's army to weaken them from the inside. However, he falls in love with Amrapali, a well-respected royal courtesan, and must decide what his main priority is.
The story of activity of partisan detachment on the territory of occupied Belarus during WW2. They live on airfield which surrounded by swamp and take planes with ammo from behind the front. But Nazi want to destroy the airfield.
Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the big four of classic Chinese novels, has been adapted for film and television dozens of times over the past decades. Yet this sui generis Great Wall production daringly transposes the setting to modern-day 1950s. The contemporised story revolves nonetheless around the love triangle between Jia Baoyu and his two cousins. Both girls love him but his heart belongs to only one. The ending, however, is remarkably changed to separation of the lovers as a result of war—the war that was surely still haunting the minds of the filmmakers at the time when the film was made. Not only did Great Wall pour money into building extravagant sets just so to recreate down to the smallest detail the grandeur of the legendary Jia mansion, but the film also boasted of its lavish costume designs for the diverse female cast. (From Hong Kong Film Archive)
A recording of the Beijing Opera version of The Red Detachment of Women filmed by the August First Film Studio in 1972. Toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, the ballet version was adapted into this Beijing opera.
Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal wartime journals of Ernst Junger, a German writer and army officer living in occupied Paris in World War II, and newsreel footage of Paris as it really was."
In 1940, on the eve of the Greek-Italian war, in life of Colonel Diagoras Vartanis, his sister Christina and her husband Captain Hector Psachos appears a second Hector Psachos, which insists that this is true of the two. Christina is still in a dilemma while Vartanis lead the committee to interrogate and investigate which of the two men who claim to be the captain Psachos, is real and what is a spy.
This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end gossiping during World War II.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Eighth Route Army officer Ma Ying returns to his hometown to mobilize resistance against Japanese forces and traitors. As enemies plot to turn villagers against each other, Ma Ying must rally the people to prevent a devastating massacre.
The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake she gives up her acting career.
What was this woman? The tragic victim of the SS or the female executioner of the Hitler's camps? What was it all about? A satan or an angel? Why, in peacetime, the old nightmares come back and drift into this shocking adventure of love, hatred and action with an unexpected ending?
The film is a memoir of a boy who was 10 years old during the Nazi occupation. The war stole his childhood from him forever, but he left one brief meeting as a memory. A meeting with a German soldier, a teacher, a worthy son of his people, whose noble deed became a great victory in his personal war against fascism.
More than one million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1916 in massacres or brutal deportation programs. Turkey still denies it ever happened. Laurence Jourdan examines massacres of Armenians in the decades leading up to the mass murder, and the geopolitical situation both before and after the genocide. Contemporaneous reports and documents written by Western diplomats stationed in the Ottoman Empire describe the methods used and the deportation routes. These accounts are mixed with personal stories from the living survivors and archive footage from Ottoman authorities.
With the support of dramatic staging, a narrative teaches about sabotage and espionage directed at Sweden.
Professional soldiers from six different nations discuss their combat experiences, job demands, and the effects of new technology.
The story of a young man's gradual awakening to reality, who learns from a letter from his father to come to terms with World War II and its consequences for his family.
Amidst an ongoing war, an American officer finds a private whom he believes is a spy, and cordially invites him to a luncheon.