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- In France during World War II, René Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating René.
- A series of eight dramas to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Each drama focuses on a real event that happened exactly five years ago to the day.
- The extraordinary story of how the Allies turned the tide in the final months of 1918 to win the First World War.
- Despite earlier promises to pass his crown to one of his Flemish, Viking, or Norman relatives, English King Edward the Confessor dies in 1066, leaving his crown to Anglo-Saxon Harold Godwinson, causing a bloody succession war.
- This is the story of 12 jurors who must decide: is a Chechen youth guilty of murdering his adoptive father, a Russian officer?
- A WWII bomb group commander must fill the shoes of his predecessor and get the performance rating up to snuff. He struggles with his own men, until he is able to develop pride in the group and win the men over, but at a cost to him.
- The story of a 13 year old boy in occupied holland during WWII
- 100 years after its outbreak, this series lets viewers experience WWI solely through the eyes of those who lived it.
- Fourteen poignant stories of Holocaust survivors, who recall in 26 minutes each an important and painful episode in their life and in WWII History.
- A new WW2 documentary about The Battle of Berlin,. The Battle of Berlin was a gigantic battle in which over 3 million soldiers fought in one of the biggest cities of Europe that was still populated by civilians while the fight was raging.
- In 1628, Sweden is at war with Poland. A new warship (called Vasa) is therefore ordered to be built. Two wharves compete for the right to build it, one lead by Bengt Skeppsbyggare and the other lead by Bengt Båtbyggare. However, foreign powers, such as Poles and Dutch, try to sabotage the construction of the ship.
- When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
- Two young men from the country join the army and leave for World War I.
- A drama documentary outlining the lives of the "Forgotten Seven", seven leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.
- An historical drama centered around the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920 and three Polish soldiers when Poland stood up in defense of its borders and of the entire European civilization threatened by the communist Soviet Russia.
- June, 1941. A small Russian village at the border is living its everyday life - people work, love, squabble, make plans for the future. The war changes all plans, tears families apart, the first victims fall... Some Russian straggling soldiers who managed to stay alive after the first onslaught of the German army make their own war, some of the locals joining them to avenge their murdered relatives and to fight for their native land. The villagers are rent between the threats and executions introduced by the German invaders for helping the guerrillas and the necessity to help these guerrillas who are of their own flesh and blood. German repressions meet stubborn resistance. Walter, a German lieutenant, feels that the tactics of repression are wrong, but his superiors do not understand him. Walter falls in love with a local peasant girl, Dasha, but for Dasha only one man exists - Grigory, head of the local guerrillas. Grigory in his turn is married to Alyona, but not of his won accord. Alyona knows nothing about Grigory's fate after the war begins, and helps a wounded Russian soldier hiding him from the Germans... How will the war cut all these knots?
- In Nazi-occupied Russia, partisans Gregory and The Fly join the Red Army to resist, while the women and elderly hide in the woods. Gregory shelters with withdrawn Dasha, whose traitor husband broke her spirit.
- Covers the events that led to the Allied victory in 1944, from the preparation for the Normandy landings to the Liberation of Paris, through Operation Fortitude which deceived the Germans as to the place of the landing, a decisive exploit.
- The story of a family whose members are on opposing sides during World War II.
- A look back to the end of the second World War, where the world was struggling to recover after the death and destruction caused by the six-year global conflict.
- In the Sino-Indian War, 126 Indians defended a strategic pass against 3,000 enemy soldiers. This was a battle of dauntless courage, fought to the last bullet.
- With revolution on the horizon, a band of Rhode Islanders prepare for war by forming a militia line infantry regiment to combat British forces in New England. To fill their regimental quota, Rhode Island's Congress opens recruitment to Native Americans and free men of color to enlist- sparking controversy within and beyond Rhode Island's militia. African-American men in the regiment must combat prejudice in a growing war led by slave owners to gain independence from Great Britain.
- Journalism student Danil volunteers to go to the SVO area, tired of the capital's hypocrisy. He is from Sevastopol himself, and knows a little more about the neighboring state than his friends. His anti-war girlfriend, Alisa, realizing that she is expecting a child, decides to save her young man from a fatal mistake and goes after him to bring him back. Finding a loved one in the chaos of war is not easy. In a few weeks spent in the hell of the assault on Mariupol, the guys will understand that the world lives not only within the framework of their ideas, and their love will be tested for strength.
- A chronicle of the lives and events that led to the brave and epic last stand of the 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh regiment of the British Indian Army against thousands of Afghani invaders in the September of 1897.
- There is a part of World War II history that we do not usually hear of. Claude Legault travels around Canada and discovers untold stories and lesser-known events that took place in this country at the time, far from the European front.
- This well made documentary sees the outbreak of WW II (from the invasion of Poland 1939 till the fall of France 1940) as the contemporaries have perceived it in movie theaters. The news reels, made by the Germans, the French and the British, are presented in the historical context, in a chronological order. Sometimes, the narrator commentates on misleading, propagandistic images, such as pictures of German military exercises which are later presented as real combat footage.
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- Follows a multiethnic mix of men and women deployed as Army medics to a forward operating base in Afghanistan, where they endure a dangerous world that leads to self-destructive appetites, outrageous behavior and intense camaraderie.
- TV Mini Series
- Seven-part series that outlines the development from the relatively small Dutch uprising to a large-scale 'professional' war. Local stories play an important role in this.
- The Republic of San Magnolia is at war with its neighboring country, the Empire of Giad. Both sides use unmanned drones to conduct a "war without casualties". The story follows Lena as she commands a squad of drones called the 86.
- TV Mini Series
- TV Mini SeriesA drama series following members of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion who came to Spain from the U.S. to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. It will follow the Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, both part of the International Brigade that fought in the Spanish Civil War, from their arrival in 1937 and first bloody battle in the Jarama Valley until their departure in 1939. The show offers a "compelling and tragic narrative," David Simon said, adding that the "Spanish struggle against fascism and the misuse of capitalism as a bulwark to totalitarianism" represent "the preeminent political narrative of the 20th century and of our time still".
- On June 26, 1941, the German army invaded Russia. Maria João photographs Lisbon full of refugees arriving in Portugal. When her father-in-law Nicolau suffers an accident, he asks Maria João to help him manage the company.
- The lower middle class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool deal with life on the home front during the Second World War.
- Four part biopic about classic Australian author A.B. Facey (1894-1982). Born in a large impoverished family, uneducated and illiterate, he had to fend for himself since he was eight, and as a recruit in WWI, he was sent to Gallipoli.
- TV SeriesGu Yi Zhong, the young master of the famous Gu Family in Suzhou, graduated from the architecture department of a famous foreign university. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Gu Yi Zhong insisted on staying in Suzhou, under the name of protecting cultural relics, while in fact he actually actively participated in Anti-Japanese activities. In a rescue operation, Gu Yi Zhong was framed by the Japanese as a traitor within the party and betrayed overnight. Unable to prove his innocence and in order to find out the real traitor, Gu Yi Zhong took the initiative to infiltrate the Japanese army and became a hidden member of the Suzhou Secret Service Station. His hidden task is full of dangers.
- During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
- The film is a journey in the Greek and Western history from the 1929 crash to today, in the light of economic greed. Rarely seen film footage and unconventional interviews retrace the imprints it leaves on societies and the relations it builds between human beings.
- Explore the Second World War through German newsreel footage that fed the hungry German nation. Shown in cinemas throughout the war, it was through this medium that Goebbels' propaganda ministry sold its misinformation to the German public, often completely fabricating the evens of the war in their favor.