About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba'ath regime in July 2003. It is also perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of life as well as social, economic and ethnic backgrounds. While many have talked about and for the Iraqi people, few media outlets have sought to probe beyond the simplistic binary of pro-US/pro-Saddam perspective so often found in Western and Arab media portrayals of Iraq. About Baghdad presents Iraqis who describe the pain, complexity and suffering of living under decades of tyranny, oppression, wars, sanctions and now occupation.
The chronicle of a WWII veteran who was sent into Nagasaki to rescue the Allied POWs after the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Japan.
Highlights of the Allied advance from Normandy to Antwerp during World War II.
When the path to safety has been destroyed and you’re forced to abandon your life because the enemy is at the gates, all that’s left to do, is save your home in your heart.
In ECLIPSE a child survivor wanders barefoot across a stunningly evocative landscape. Director Jason Ruscio expresses the profound loneliness of a decimated world through richly textured images that bring to mind the films of Andrei Tarkovsky – burned out interiors, hands grasping to hold each other, time-worn photographs and faceless soldiers in the snow. ECLIPSE is a remarkable meditation on the effects of war. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film & Television in 2016.
A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).
A Cambodian immigrant plays chess in the heart of New York .....
Documentary about specific phases of the battle for the Donetsk airport and about the hero-fighters of the Ukrainian Volunteer corps in Pisky. The film presents the war in extreme focus – adrenaline, humor, pain, anguish, and courage are tightly packed into 82 minutes of screen time. It shows scenes of the battle, evacuation of the wounded, the capture of the new airport terminal, and civilians, who live near the fighting’s epicenter. It features death and frontline humor, and a bit of philosophical discussions as well.
A surrealistic montage set in motion by a tidal wave and incorporating a samurai battle.
A bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning for the mission through final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.
The boy Stefan brings the supper to his father in village council office. From the frontier post comes the news that bandits have crossed the border. The boy goes back home. He and his sister prepare to go to bed. A blizzard is raging outside. A wounded stranger comes to the house in search of shelter. The mother dresses his wounds and gives him food. It becomes clear that he is not the lieutenant from the frontier post that he claims to be. Stefan jumps from the window and dashes to the frontier post. The mother tries to keep the saboteur as long as possible. The two quarrels. He hits her with the submachine gun. He attempts to escape, but the border guards have already surrounded the house.
It’s wartime. Gus and Lars, two enemy lieutenants in search of victory, find themselves in an abandoned music school. Both are locked in a classroom full of musical instruments. Only a wall separates the two soldiers. The attacks are fierce. When Gus runs out of ammunition, he taunts his enemy by banging on the snare drum on the wall. Lars retaliates with a trombone, making an unpleasant noise. A melody emerges as the exchange of sounds continues. The duel gradually turns into a duet…
A young man decides to sell a family gem and set forth to America in quest of a new life. The man’s father resents this resolve, but finally he also gets inspired by the American Dream.
This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm film stock and synchronized with a brass band rendition of Sousa's march "The Thunderer."
During the Second World War 6 prisoners are being held in a prison cell in Concentration Camp Amersfoort, Holland. Their fate is unknown. This night has an impact for many years and in many lives.
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the war as illustrated by an assemblage of battlefield and other documentary footage. This film is not the same as, but seems likely to have either inspired or been inspired by, Norman Lee's British production of the same title (q.v.), apparently released the following year.
In the winter of 1936-1937, in the Biscayan-Alevan front, militiamen of the CNT arrive in the village of Meroño with the aim of reinforcing the defenses against the imminent advance of the columns of requetés; Carlist soldiers adept at the cause of the rebels. Alicia, an anarchist militiaman, will establish a close relationship with Rosarito, a girl from the village, who will try to survive a war that will change her way of life forever.
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