A response in music and film to the conflict that launched a century of war, and a celebration of the power of art to keep us sane and offer us comfort. Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 brings together three of the world's most pioneering artists: the Kronos Quartet, known for decades for their trailblazing performances and collaborations; acclaimed Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov; and filmmaker Bill Morrison, respected for his work with rare and even partially destroyed archive images.
An army pilot is visiting the home of another army pilot in a neighboring country, and falling in love with his sister, when war breaks out.
A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).
Recreation of military maneuvers in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War.
In a losing war for a nameless cause a soldier is sent to the combat zone to deliver a message from high above to the officer in charge. His mission proves to be harder than anticipated since the havoc has apparently dissolved any vestige of order or structure and every man seems to be fighting for himself. The soldier remains unyielding in his quest however; confident in the importance and relevance of the message he carries, hoping that it will contain vital information that will save his life and his comrades. But he might be in for a big disappointment...
With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.
Eastern Borderlands, 1919. The Bolsheviks, taking part in the Polish-Russian war, appear at the Granowski manor house. It's a story based on the war of 1920, which ended with the Battle of Warsaw going down in history as the "Miracle on the Vistula". The film was commissioned by the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs and has survived only in fragments (just 53 minutes out of the 2-hour-long film).
A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up her boyfriend for his sentence of death. In the end, he loses out to a collaborator living next door.
Spring, 1982. During the conflict of the islands Malvinas, a secret command of the Marine Argentina, comes to Spain with the mission to sabotage the British Base of Gibraltar across the Embassy in Madrid. A few events that they have to see with Spain in the times of the government of Bald man Sotelo, during the conflict that faced the United Kingdom and Argentina. The history is narrated and reconstructed by his own protagonists who reveal a few facts palmed to the public opinion and to the justice.
In the revealing 24 minutes of the PBS video documentary The Secret Government available for free viewing below, host Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of a secret government much more vast that most people would ever imagine. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret objectives of powerful groups in the hidden shadows of our government.
A Documentary on the attempts by the British forces to destroy the Bismark's sister-ship the Terpitz.
The two rival Allied commanders, General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery, clash in a battle of egos and strategic choices, with devastating consequences for the people of Zeeland during the liberation of the Netherlands.
A group of army deserters attempt to flee an unspecified war.
1935. Young Red Army soldier Hong Qichen receives his orders: destroy the enemy's ammunition depot within 48 hours. It is, in all likelihood, a death sentence. Gathering his wounded comrades through treacherous mountain terrain, he leads them against overwhelming odds — while confronting their anguished questioning of why they should give their lives at all, and watching as they fall, one by one.
What we see in this short are Algerian spahis, cavalry units from that country. We watch their military evolutions, their charging at the camera and across the muddy shores. We see them at prayer.
In the first day of liberation, partisan Meke enters the palace where the king used to live.
WWI thriller set on the Austro-Russian front. A long distance gun wards off an enemy attack, until a traitor among 13 soldiers signals the whereabouts of the battery.
It’s a beautiful winter day. Four children are playing on the bridge, but fifth actor enters the game... The sniper.
John Ford splices together footage of Torpedo Squadron 8, all but one of whom were later shot down and killed in the Battle of Midway. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2007.
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