War Movies

Auschwitz, la machine de mort nazie

Drugi brzeg

A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.

The Great Water

An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.

Vicarious

Jake Thompson rather likes to dream than live his real life. When his fantasy doesn't fulfill him anymore he has to find a new way to be happy again. Will he be able to realize his aim?

The Heart of Vukovar

The Heart of Vukovar is a Croatian documentary which shows the events of the Vukovar war hospital during the Croatian Homeland War. The hospital was a symbol of the defense of Vukovar agains the occupying Serbian forces. The movie shows how it managed to operate under impossible conditions after being bombarded, up until the day the city fell to occupying forces

For We All Have Sinned

The peaceful life of a notary’s family is disrupted during the Second World War when several German officers are quartered in their home, holding half a dozen fleeing Jews captive. The local resistance is determined to help the prisoners escape, but it won’t be without struggle. A worthy attempt to illustrate the futility of war, and of racism in particular.

The Doctor of Stalingrad

Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.

Zero Fighter

Based on the true story of Saburo Sakai, ace pilot in the Pacific War. As he witnesses his comrades die, Sakai must face the ultimate battle for survival over Guadalcanal.

The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov

Biopic about Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Documentary footage from WWII and dramatization played by Russian and German actors.

Diary

An autobiographical short film by photojournalist Tim Hetherington, focusing on the decade he spent as a war photographer.

Vedaat Marathe Veer Daudale Saat

It shows the inspirational story of the extraordinary bravery of seven Maratha warriors of Maratha Empire to achieve dream of Swaraj in 1674.

Visitors on the Icy Mountain

Summer 1951, the Pamir Plateau in Xinjiang. The lives of the border troops and civilians are being threatened by a spy organization.

The Mire

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband at the front, then her eldest son goes missing. Matryona decides to save the youngest son at all costs and shelters him from being drafted into the army in the attic of the house until the end of the war. But it turns out that saving her son, she condemns him to spiritual death, and herself to torment of conscience. A private story about the mother of a deserter grows to epic proportions...

Utu

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.

Taste of Chocolate

The action takes place in occupied Poland during World War II. Ewa moves into the tenement house where 12-year-old Filip lives. Since she meets the Germans, the inhabitants of the tenement house avoid her. Filip, on the orders of "Gypsy", who follows Ewa, starts visiting her and tells "Gypsy" about these visits. Soon a friendship is born between him and the girl.

Firebase

Set during the Vietnam war, Firebase follows American soldier Hines through an ever-deepening web of science fiction madness.

Varnagel

A former guerrilla fighter seeks vengeance on a squadron of Swedish soldiers during the Scanian War 1678.

The Year That Trembled

The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

Ricochets

The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.

Auschwitz - One Day

Today, the word "Auschwitz" is a synonym for the Holocaust. Thousands of Jews died there every day. With the help of some acted scenes, photos and graphics, the film tells of a day in May 1944. The starting point is a unique document: a photo album created by the SS perpetrators themselves. Almost all of the photos were taken at the end of May 1944, in just a few days. They show the cruel routine, the arrival of the victims, their "selection" on the ramp, the robbery of their property and the transformation of all those who were not immediately killed, into shaved, uniformed slaves. One survivor is Irina Weiss. On a photo she recognizes her little brothers and her mother - waiting unsuspectingly near the crematorium. The SS photographers captured all of this. Their identity is known today: one of them was Bernhard Walter, a "Stabsscharführer" who lived with his wife and three children near the extermination camp.