War Movies

Junikveld

A film about disarmament.

One Minute to Zero

An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.

Fuite des nazis, la route des monastères

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

Raoul Wallenberg was the scion of Sweden's wealthiest dynasty, a diplomat and hero who saved more than 100,000 Jews from the Holocaust in an undercover American-financed mission within Nazi occupied Budapest. But in the final hours of WWII, Raoul was arrested by the "liberating" Soviet Red Army, sent to Moscow and vanished into Russian KGB prison system, never to be seen again. The question still haunts the world: what happened to Raoul Wallenberg?

אלבום שקוף - Invisible Album

A warrior's journey to recover from his post-trauma from war - in his relationship with his partner, the opaque bureaucratic system, his parents, and the growth from grief and the painful past.

Daredevils of Sassoun

An animated film based on the Armenian heroic epic poem Daredevils of Sassoun. The animation centers around the main protagonist of the third branch of the Sassoun family, named David.

Dunja

During the fifth offensive, the day before the last punching hoops on Sutjeska 1943. in a small area is connected to a lot of heavy dramas and the many fates. Company proletarians passed a group of seriously wounded closer Gojkovoj hair, the closer to the breakthrough in the direction Balinovac, where it will be early in the morning make a breakthrough hoops. With wounded stays only Dunja, terrain, man of the people, to whom they entrust the seriously wounded to guard them. All that could be under the circumstances for them to do is done. Shows the power and human courage of ordinary people through which relief outlines the breadth and humanity of the whole revolution. Film is a synthesis of both.

Goering: Nazi Number One

This is the story of an incredible rise to power, the most comprehensive documentary on Hermann Goering ever made. He was a man of many faces: vain, ambitious, more brutal than any other of Hitler's minions, yet the most popular Nazi official of all, at times even more popular than Hitler himself. He embodied the jovial side of the Third Reich. Yet the same man who organised dissolute bacchanals also founded the Gestapo, set up the first concentration camps, and had his own comrades murdered in the purge of 1934. These unique personal records form the largest and most important single film find from the Nazi era in past years.

Leaving Afghanistan

1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.

Lal Sobujer Sur

Emon flees Dhaka with his parents following the genocide attacks on Bangladeshis by Pakistan Army on March 25, 1971 to take shelter in a village.

The Day of the Kamikaze

Some called it, "enemy attrition at the lowest possible cost, without regard to human life." Entire squadrons of Japanese kamikaze pilots flew straight to their death - taking their enemies with them.

Без вести пропавший

A story about injured Soviet Army officer who joins resistance group in Slovakia during WWII.

The Heart of Maryland

At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.

Persona Non Grata

The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to and after his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people. This is the story of a man who believed in doing all he could do for the benefit of his beloved Japan, including trying to keep her from becoming embroiled in a worldwide conflict he saw as inevitable. Along the way, he came face to face with the plight of the European Jews as they tried to escape the onslaught of the Nazi's and the rapidly advancing German army. Caught between the unbending policies of his country now bound by treaty with Nazi Germany and his awakening moral responsibilities, we follow his life from his early days in Manchuria to his eventual posting in Lithuania and his appointment with destiny which would forever brand him a hero.

Where have you been, Odysseus?

A story of a Soviet spy working in France during WWII.

A Bit of a Stranger

Svitlana, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, examines the colonised part of her consciousness and tries to find answers to the question of how Soviet totalitarianism and Russification influenced the relationships within her family.

Assika : Et bienvenue en Assilka !

Julia Blue

A love story set in modern day, post-revolutionary Ukraine between Julia, an idealistic student activist, and a wounded soldier fresh from the warfront.

La planta insolente

The film reproduces the historical moment when Cipriano Castro, then president of Venezuela, proclaimed: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland!" While the coasts were invaded by imperial forces in 1902.

Jungle Heat

Towards the end of the Vietnam war, the US is running low on drivers for their supplies so they bring in a new lot of recruits and have to train them to survive in the dangers of wartorn Vietnam. The recruits are trained briefly by an American officer but are quickly handed off to their South Vietnamese officers and are made to go out into the dangers of Vietnam without getting the protection they need by the Americans who are more concerned with withdrawing their own troops instead of protecting the South Vietnamese