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Netto e o Domador de Cavalos

HistoryWar

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My Heart of Darkness

WarDocumentary

Four war-veterans, from different sides, step onto a boat at the mouth of the Kwando river, deep within the African interior. They are on a journey back to the battlefield, the site of the last "great" battle of the Cold War - its inconclusive and a very secret Armageddon, where they as youngsters, once tried to kill each other. But now, twenty years later, they've come together as former enemies, a new unit of disparate souls joined together not only by the common haunting of war trauma, but also by their need to understand, to reconcile, to forgive.

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A Measure of the Man

DocumentaryWar

A professionally commissioned documentary about the training of Rhodesian Regular Army Officer Cadets. It follows the fortunes of Inf 25/19 - a group of young men commissioned into the Rhodeisan Army in 1977.

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Song of Retrospection

DramaWar

Mr. Komak, a musician from one foreign power, and Ra Sol Ju, Navy communicator of DPRK, who also does have a sense of music, met twice. First, on the Korean War, where she captured him, and then at the Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin. Many years later, Komak is coming to the festival in Pyongyang, with hope to find her.

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Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald

DocumentaryDrama

Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, sixty-five years later, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp's Communist-led underground to protect ad save Jewish children who were arriving in Buchenwald toward the end of the Holocaust. Kinderblock 66 also tells the story of Antonin Kalina, the head of the block who was personally responsible for saving 904 boys in Buchenwald.

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What the Dambusters Did Next

DocumentaryHistory

The daring raid is undoubtedly one of the most famous in the history of the Second World War, the subject of a great British blockbuster and countless books. But what did the elite fliers of No 617 Squadron RAF, otherwise known as the Dambusters, do after Operation Chastise? This new documentary provides a wealth of insight into the spectacular missions undertaken by the squadron after the deployment of the famous bouncing bombs in 1943.

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Ikarus, the Flying Man

WarDrama

Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.

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A Farewell to Arms.

DramaWar

Frederic, after having announced sadly and wistfully at Catherine, goes to war.He's wounded in the war, so he has to go to the hospital where Catherine, as a nurse, can heal him.

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Hell is Ten Years Old

DramaWar

This film was considered a testing ground for young O.N.C.I.C. directors. Today there is no longer a copy and the negative was accidentally destroyed. The Algerian Cinematheque has a copy of the very beautiful part shot by Abderrahmane Bouguermouh "La Give": A young schoolgirl from Kabylia is tasked by the resistance fighters with transmitting a message which is hidden in a thrush...

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Toha, Pahlawan Bandung Selatan

WarAction

This is the heroic story of Mochamad Toha, who successfully blew up a Dutch ammunition depot in Bandung and ruined their defences. Set in Bandung at the time of transition, between the departing Japanese and the incoming Dutch (who are supported by the British), Indonesians had to fight for their independence. Toha emerged as a leader of the common people, who saw injustice and oppression, and who sacrificed himself by blowing up the ammunition depot.

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Tony Robinson's Victory in Europe

DocumentaryHistory

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2, TONY ROBINSON'S VICTORY IN EUROPE will use an amazing archive of 3D pictures to tell the story of the last days of the Nazi regime. During the one-off special, Tony Robinson will explore life in Europe before the war, with a look at Nazi propaganda - the Olympics, leader's books and the Munich city of Nazism. The photographs from this time provide a unique record of the rise and fall of the Nazis and give Tony an opportunity to look at this well studied time in history with fresh eyes. Tony will also look at the beginning of the end, the last weeks of the war ending with the D Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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Singing Saved my Life

WarDocumentary

When film director Morten Conradi´s father met Igor Trapitsin, a Russian prisoner of war, for the first time in Brønnøysund in Norway 1945, it was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until Morten’s father died in 1977. Morten always wanted to find Igor and find out how he survived the barbaric conditions in the camps during the Second World War. So in 2009 Morten went to Moscow to meet him. The answer Igor gave was unexpected, he simply said: "Singing saved my life".

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Mythical Creatures - A Documentary About the Basemans

DocumentaryWar

Renowned Artist Gary Baseman embarks on a journey from the Fairfax district of Los Angeles to the villages of Poland and Ukraine, in search of a hidden family secret from World War II.

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Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith

DocumentaryWar

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

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Going Ape

ComedyHorror

Dude goes bananas, crazy shit.

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Raid on the Wuling Bridge

War

War film about the attack of Wuling Bridge during the Korean war. This was the original version made as a military educational film, later remade as a standard drama Qi Xi (奇袭, 1960) for the general release.

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Suomi-Filmin sotilaspila 1

ComedyWar

During the decisive weeks of the Winter War in February-March 1940, Suomi-Filmi produced four War Jokes, cheesy propaganda entertainment, by "those great grins" Tatu Pekkarinen and Matti Jurva. The first War Jokes is from the beginning of February. At the beginning, Jurva sings about the evil eastern direction. "The Iivanas are digging trenches on the Isthmus... Whoever starts with a shovel, ends with a spoon..." The second part is Jurva's bravura. In front of the trench, he performs a foxtrot with a balalaika in a red star cap: "Njet Molotoff, njet Molotoff, you lied more than Bobrikov himself..."

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Diakos the Heroic Martyr

HistoryWar

A feature film based on the true story on the life and death of Athanasios Diakos (1788 – 1821). Hassan and his Ottoman gang terrorize the family of Yorgis Psychoyos… His wife Psychoyina will send their son, Nasos, to the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Artotina… However, the profound love that the handsome Diakos has for his faith and his homeland will lead him down thorny paths… His horrible martyrdom, like a fiery sword plunged into the hearts of Greeks!…

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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

WarDrama

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Sea Of Fire

WarDrama

Vietnamese guerrillas move into a village adjoining a French/US airstrip and recruit locals to help them bring it down.

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