Ukraine during the German occupation in 1943. 12-year-old orphan Mitka earns a living in a tavern under a false name by playing music every night for the mainly German guests. He is accompanied in his playing on the violin by the pianist Yegor. Even beyond the music, he tries to be a friend and mentor to the boy. Mitka, however, finds it difficult to accept the budding friendship. This is because none of the people involved has any idea that Mitka belongs to a Jewish partisan movement.
Abstracted footage and audio of bombs dropping on Biafra in 1967 set against a speech by leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, illustrates the ironies of post-colonial warfare.
Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against Hitler. British agents, Captain Harry Rée DSO, OBE, Croix De Guerre, Médaille de la Résistance, aka "Felix", and Jacqueline Nearne, MBE, aka "Cat", recreate some of their adventures in France.
North American journalist Rachel Clark uncovers a terrorist plot aimed at overthrowing the current president of Haiti. As a result, the UN mission to stabilize the country is forced to intervene.
Upon becoming Prince Regent, the bellicose Lord Biu of Wu sends commander-general Si Ching-wan to rage wars between the Zhao and Chen Kingdoms. A small state that is long on literary excellence but short on military might, Chen is defenceless against the invading forces. The compassionate general answers the pleading of the Chen princess, Fung-ming, to sign a treaty of peace. In his speech to the lord, Deputy General Lau Mo-yeung accuses Si of treason so as to lay claim to Chen. The lord dispatches the valiant fighter Lui Chen-sing to Chen on an assassination mission, but the assassin is vanquished. Si prevails on Lui of his patriotism. Lord Biu fights Chen. In a dire attempt to redeem Chen, Si surrenders to the Wu camp. Lui pretends to have blinded Si to extricate him. The duo ally with a band of chivalrous fighters to overturn the corrupt regime. Dispossessed of his throne, Biu commits suicide. Si returns to his land to serve as an aide to the young king and marry Fung-ming.
The film tells the story of the battlefield against the Japanese in southern Hunan in 1944. After The Kuomintang (Nationalist) ordered the army to withdraw, the last nine members of a Sichuan army company led by Qin Hao Zhong stayed behind themselves to cover the retreat of the rest of the troops.
On March 18, 1943, 82 warriors from the 4th Company of the 19th Regiment of the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army fought in a blocking battle at Liulaozhuang in Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province. In order to cover the safe transfer of the main force and party and government agencies, as a force The weak side stubbornly resisted more than 10 attacks by more than 1,000 Japanese troops. Although all 82 commanders and combatants died heroically, the Japanese army suffered a huge result of more than 170 casualties and more than 200 injuries. There are no mountains, hills, forests or swamps here, and there are no tall buildings to block the enemy. The asymmetric combat with troops and weapons and equipment against the enemy achieved extraordinary results under impossible circumstances and fought an unrestricted war. The fourth company blocked the Japanese troops for more than 10 hours, successfully covering the safe transfer of the people in Liulaozhuang
Easter is a five story-arc opera about the coming-of-age of juking. The first of its tales aptly deals with contemporary civil unrest with foci on the interrelationships between law enforcement in communities it serves, and corruption within the justice system as a whole. It unfolds from the perspective of an African-American male who feels circumstantially slighted by society, and because of that, takes the law into his own hands and goes on a rampage which erupts into a war in the process.
During the conflict in Macedonia in 2001, a Spec-Ops soldier is placed in a transport truck along with a group of unexperienced young soldiers mobilized for active duty. While on the road, the convoy is ambushed and all hell breaks loose over the group. Panic takes over and people start dying. The Spec-Ops soldier tries everything to lead his young unit of soldiers to safety, but their inexperience leads many to their deaths.
Powerful documentary from Emmy award-winning director Tom Roberts which explores the profound human consequences of America's frontier wars through the moving personal journey of retired US Major Robert 'Snuffy' Gray, who fought with the controversial 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Rashomon-like look at the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 10, 1945. Features color footage of the bomb's aftermath shown in public for the first time in over fifty years. The film features extremely rare footage of the atomic bombing, both black-and-white and color.
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