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Wolfe and Montcalm

Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.

Nina's House

Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.

An Abundance of Dunes

ComedyWar

In a besieged town, con artist Jia Yizheng poses as a government envoy to swindle Hu Dingbang, a local defense force commander. On the run, Jia is mistaken by Mayor Xie Qianli—a secret collaborator with Japanese forces—for the real envoy. Exploiting each other, they engage in a cutthroat power play, creating chaotic farce. Amidst absurd conflicts, Jia eventually abandons deceit to join the anti-Japanese resistance.

The Patriot: True Patriots

DocumentaryDrama

A featurette that shows how the filmmakers tried to accurately re-create the look of that time in history.

Yellow Canary

DramaThriller

In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.

Stalingrad

WarDrama

The story of the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a Panzer commander and an officer in a penal battalion.

Shuttlecock

DramaMystery

Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal.

Kennet the Knight

ActionHistory

A film following Richard the Lion-Hearted and the knight Kenneth

Sky

DramaWar

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

Aventure Malgache

WarDrama

Backstage before a performance, a French actor recalls his time in Madagascar during World War II, when he secretly ran a Resistance radio station under the watch of a collaborationist police chief. His story unfolds in flashback, revealing espionage, deception, and divided loyalties within the French ranks. Made for Britain’s Ministry of Information, this 1944 French-language propaganda short satirizes Vichy opportunism and wartime hypocrisy, and was shelved for decades before its release in 1993.

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War

Red Scarf

Wolfe and Montcalm

Nina's House

An Abundance of Dunes

This Life 2: Those Left Behind

The Patriot: True Patriots

Salween

Stalin, the Red Tyrant

Yellow Canary

Stalingrad

Shuttlecock

Unknown Redux

How the Steel Was Tempered

For Those in Peril

The Fifth Day of Peace

Kennet the Knight

Sky

Aventure Malgache

Aleksa Dundic

Resurrected

Command Palette

Wolfe and Montcalm

The Patriot: True Patriots

Stalingrad

Shuttlecock

Kennet the Knight