Death of a Speechwriter
1986-01-01Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of "animated visions of the apocalypse".
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Esther, voorgoed op reis
1975-05-04TV movie based on the clearing of the Jewish psychiatric hospital "Het Apeldoornse Bosch" on 23 January 1943.
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Naval Guns Firing at Colenso
1899-12-15Close shot of 4.7" naval gun pointing to the left with group of British naval ratings standing around it. The gun fires and the men run up to reload, ...
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The Blue Island
2001-06-18France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impov...
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The First World War From Above
2010-11-07The story of the Great War told from a unique new aerial perspective. Featuring two remarkable historical finds, including a piece of archive footage ...
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Occupation: Dreamland
2005-03-11This documentary of American soldiers in Falluja offers a revealing and complex portrait of Army life.
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Flying in the Air
1957-01-09The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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One Man's War
1982-11-17Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal wartime journals of Ernst Junger, a German writer ...
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The Last Bullet
1995-05-05Set during WWII, an Australian and Japanese soldier play a deadly game of Cat and mouse in a South Pacific Jungle.
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Freedom's Path
2023-02-03A Union soldier flees from battle and is rescued unexpectedly by free Black man Kitch and his friends. Risking everything, Kitch takes William deep in...
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Grandmother Told Grandmother
2018-10-07The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and Soviet fronts in World War II. Spending their chi...
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Hunting Down the Nazis
2007-01-15For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations, set-...
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El Presidente
2012-12-25The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman g...
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Blood Money: Inside the Soviet Economy
2024-06-11How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Germany, the USA and the UK - shape its victory over ...
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Our Patriots
2017-06-14After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false d...
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Pomiędzy wilki
1989-01-01A young Polish aviator, feeling cheated by the British prime minister, gives back his war decorations. Transferred to Washington as a civilian, he mee...
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Al Murray's Great British War Movies
2014-08-25Comedian and history buff Al Murray is joined by historian Dan Snow, writer Natalie Haynes and broadcaster and film expert Matthew Sweet for a fresh l...
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Mare nostrum
1948-12-21The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking throu...
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Seven Against the Sun
1964-09-24In February of 1941, South African troops are in action against the Italian forces on the northern frontier of Kenya. An Italian invasion, aimed at pu...
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African Express
1990-07-01The adventures of three friends running an air charter business in Africa during WW II and their race to prevent a Nazi Baron from escaping to Germany...
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