War

As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.

A group of Red Army scouts are trying to find a secret Hitler's headquarters in Ukraine during WWII.

The Dumlupinar Submarine collides with a Swedish ship while cruising on the Dardanelles. It sinks into depths of the sea within seconds. The soldiers trapped inside the submarine wait for days, hoping to be rescued.

In the midst of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, a group of five disgraced and imprisoned Filipino soldiers, led by Sergeant Sanchez, are offered a pardon in exchange for a near-suicidal mission. They must intentionally get captured and sent to a brutal Japanese prison camp to rescue two American officers who hold a vital, secret message from General MacArthur. Once inside, they discover the camp is run by the cunning Major Hayashi and that a traitor among the Filipino prisoners is feeding him information, foiling all escape attempts. Realizing their own plan to tunnel out is compromised, Sanchez and his allies devise a new, more audacious strategy: to tunnel directly into the commander's office. The mission culminates in a violent and desperate breakout, where they must secure the message, capture the enemy commander, and fight for their freedom and honor.

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A special forces operative is smuggled into a German POW camp with orders to blow up a nearby villa being used by the Nazis to house a secret weapons program.

A short documentary made for the British government illustrating the Allied war effort between the liberation of Paris and the arrival at the river Rhine. Part of a series that ran from the invasion of Italy to V-E Day.

The story of the Spanish Republicans of La Nueve, the 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division, known as Leclerc Division, whose troops were the first who entered Nazi-occupied Paris on August 24, 1944.

Kristian Smeds's sensational debut at the National Theater. Smeds's adaptation of Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier had a powerful impact even on those who had not seen the play. In the National Theater's interpretation, modernity and intensity are strongly present throughout the play. The cast includes Antti Luusuaniemi, Kristo Salminen, and Jaakko Kytömaa.

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In 1944, the Allied Middle East Command assigned Greek officer Apergis, under the pseudonym Byron Tzavaras, to kidnap Wehrmacht Colonel Helmuth Bauschmer, a specialist in flying bombs, in an operation called "Isidora" aimed at preventing the delivery of this deadly weapon to Hitler.

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.

As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.

The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.

During the years of the National Struggle, Aliye, an idealistic teacher who goes to an occupied town in Anatolia, wages a battle for enlightenment against both the occupying forces and the ignorance of the local people, fueled by bigotry and self-interest.

Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman. Thus, he cannot have the woman he loves, his cousin Roxanne. Roxanne loves an officer in his army who gets tongue-tied in front of women. Who will Roxanne love? Will Cyrano ever find love? Or will he find happiness in helping the officer woo Roxanne? This is a story of split personalities, human frailty and unrequited love.

While sick in the small town of Saldán, the General José de San Martín remembers his life and achievements

On the 9th of April 1940, the crew of a Danish merchant ship receives the news of Germany's invasion of Denmark. Instead of returning home, they vote in favor of setting course for England. The crew will undergo much hardship over the next five years ...

1942 Wounded, bleeding, but defiant Sevastopol is subjected to continuous bombing and artillery shelling. It was at this time that, by Hitler's personal order, a giant experimental cannon was delivered to the Bakhchisarai area. An experienced scout Kozhukhar is instructed to contact a group of young underground fighters in Alupka through the partisans and use them to locate the artillery installation. Classified weapons are carefully guarded. The patriots decide to take an exceptionally bold step: at night, they descend along a steep cliff to Bakhchisarai and take the "tongue"...