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From HBO's "America Undercover." On June 30, 1969, Lt. Jack Hulme was killed in Vietnam, having never met his newborn son. Thirty years later, filmmaker John Hulme finally seeks out what happened to his father, and who he really was. From family members and childhood friends to the soldiers who fought beside him, John tracks down everyone, chasing his fathers ghost across the country. What he discovers is a life that mirrored a generations struggles...husbands vs. wives, soldiers vs. protestors, America vs. Vietnam. But he also finds wounds that are painfully fresh, especially his mothers. Together, using the accounts of first-hand witnesses, they travel back to Vietnam, to the place where Jack spent the last few moments of his life so they can finally come to terms with his death.
In 1945, twelve million homeless children wandered through the rubble of a Europe that had just emerged from the deadliest conflict it had ever known. An unprecedented number of children were separated from their parents or orphaned. Under the guise of the best interests of these children and of the nation, France, the United States, Great Britain and the countries of Central Europe embarked on a veritable race for children. By demographic opportunism, by fear of seeing them indoctrinated by a new totalitarianism, these countries move and adopt these orphans, erasing their history and their identity.
Widow and her two sons are targets for gossips of small town. The slanders continue until the older boy, returning from war a hero, forces the gossips to be quiet and respectful of his mother and his brother.
Yousef Srouji’s childhood in Palestine wasn’t something that he and his parents spoke of as a family, so when he found a box of his mother’s home videos from the early 2000s, an especially perilous and tumultuous period in the West Bank, the tapes became a means for remembering and comprehending a painful past. The stories she captured illuminate the nature of life in a war zone, and familial bonds that cannot be broken. – Bedatri Choudhury (DocNYC)
Elpidio Valdés returns to the Cuban countryside to fight against the Spaniards. But they have a much more dangerous enemy: the Americans, who want to take over the island at any cost. Elpidio Valdés and his comrades-in-arms will try to prevent them from achieving their goal, with machetes in hand and bullets flying. It was conceived as a series for Spanish television and later shown as a feature film under the name Más se perdió en Cuba (More Was Lost in Cuba) in Spain and Elpidio Valdés contra el águila y el león (Elpidio Valdés Against the Eagle and the Lion) in Cuba.
A young Bomber Command air crew deal with friendship, loss, and paralysing fear as British and allied forces prepare for the invasion of occupied France in June 1944.
This is a compeling story of 2 sisters both raped, assaulted and held captives during the Japanese occupation. A Makapili (Japanese informer) rounded up women of Sta. Monica forced and used them as "sex slaves" by Japanse soldiers
Summer of 1941. Mothers and wives of Uzbekistan escort their sons and husbands to the front. They are learning new professions and sending food trucks to the front.
"Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish" is the seven-minute sequel to the fan-made, original film, Find Makarov. The real life movie reveals a key moment in Modern Warfare history as Soap recalls one of his most memorable Task Force 141 missions. For more information visit findmakarov.com.
A girl from Paris' underworld fights for love and survival during a time of international turmoil.
About the life of fighter pilot Timur Frunze, who died heroically in an unequal battle with the Nazi invaders near Moscow.
The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.
An exclusive look into the trial against Slobodan Milosevic documenting the court proceedings and their background.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff want to send some ARVNSF troops to North's Điện Biên Phủ for the Dien Bien Phu Operation. But all have been caught or killed by the Chinese spy Kiều Loan, except Major Ngọc Minh.
An emotionally-unstable prisoner of war deals with the social and moral repercussions of PTSD, haunted by an enigmatic ghost of a past that he is told may not have even existed.
Fleeing persecution and torture in northern Iraq, three young Kurds, Mahmoud, Rezghar and Saman, smuggle themselves into Britain aboard a freight train. Arriving in London they register for asylum but soon experience the first blast of bureaucracy, as their papers are lost in the system. When Saman is detained in prison and the police attempt to arrest Rezghar, he flees and hides in a church where Father Michael is leading a service.
Winter of 1945. The Soviet Army is conducting a successful offensive in East Prussia. A new addition is coming to the reconnaissance company — young guys without combat experience. Everyone understands perfectly well that there is very little left until the end of the war, and the command decides to gather them into one department and leave them in the rear, in a small estate where a German family lives.
With the armies of the Liberation at the gates of Paris, station manager Kurt Heyzmann receives an order from his superiors to withdraw. As a farewell, he decides to prepare one last prestigious program, to be filmed and broadcast live. Kleischter, a Gestapo lieutenant, emerges to try and spoil the show, by antagonizing Heyzmann and his employees. He believes that the war is not over, and continues to hunt down potential Jews and STO deserters on the TV premises.