War
Ich hatt' einen Kameraden
DramaWar
Helmuth von Rhaden is a second lieutenant who is bored with his time in the army. He therefore resigns from it. But when he learns that his regiment must leave for the African colonies, he requests to be reinstated, even if it is in a lower position.
People Without A Country
DocumentaryHistory
A documentary about the life of Vera Foteva, a hero partisan from Macedonia. Picturing her life story during the civil war in Greece, terrible interrogation in Soviet Russia, and agony in Siberia gulags after the war reflects the destiny of a whole nation. This is a story about people which ideals were betrayed because of the bargaining of the big nations. At the end those people lost everything, including their homeland.
No Hard Feelings
DramaWar
This short feature, an early directing credit for Alan Parker, shows the reality of life during the WWII air raids with none of the traditional 'Blitz spirit' so often portrayed. Eric spends the nights crammed into a brick shelter with his dad, sister and her screaming kids, and every bombardment brings tears over the loss of his mother in an earlier raid. When he learns his sweetheart is to be evacuated, he finally buckles under the stress.
Endgame
AnimationWar
After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalistic style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return.
The Last 100 Days
DocumentaryWar
Canadian military accomplishments in the last hundred days of World War I, when the German Army was destroyed, surpassed those of any other army. The Canadian success was, in no small measure, due to Arthur Currie, whom a recent British historian describes as "the most successful Allied General and one of the least well known."