Set in the Anti-Japanese War, an instructor who used to be an undercover Read More »
War
A Tale of Two Cities (1917) Frank Lloyd, William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Charles Clary
Charles Darnay is the nephew of the Marquis St. Evremonde in pre-Revolutionary France Read More »
Hell’s Horizon (1955) Tom Gries, John Ireland, Marla English, Bill Williams
U.S. Air Force Captain John Merrill, an unlikeable Korean War bomber pilot Read More »
Andersonville (1996) John Frankenheimer, Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux
Sort of Civil War version of “Schindler’s List” looks at the atrocities that occurred in the 1864 prisoner-of-war camp run by the Confederacy in Georgia. Read More »
Neighbours (2009) Zubair Farghand, Mohammad Zabi Abdali, Ainuddin Abdulfezali, Noor Ahmad
Graphically depicts the brutalities on Afghan prisoners in an Iranian camp, Safaid Sang (White Stone) near the Iranian-Afghan border. Read More »
Eden (2001) Amos Gitai, Samantha Morton, Thomas Jane, Luke Holland
Is the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Read More »
God on Trial (2008) Andy De Emmony, Joseph Muir, Josef Altin, Ashley Artus
Wondering about the meaning and modalities of their triage, presumably to live or burn, Jewish Auschwitz barrack mates start to debate on how Read More »
The House of Intrigue AKA Londra chiama Polo Nord (1956) Duilio Coletti, Curd Jürgens, Dawn Addams, Folco Lulli
A British radio operator is captured in occupied territory Read More »
Remember Pearl Harbor (1942) Joseph Santley, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie
On 16 November, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines Read More »
We the Living AKA Noi vivi (1942) Goffredo Alessandrini, Fosco Giachetti, Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi
The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear Read More »
La grande vadrouille (1966) Gérard Oury, Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook
A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. Read More »
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge AKA La rivière du hibou (1961) Robert Enrico, Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
A Civil War civilian is to be executed by hanging, but when the plank is kicked away Read More »
The Sorrow and the Pity AKA Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
Sandra AKA Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa… (1965) Luchino Visconti, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. Read More »
Ararat (2002) Atom Egoyan, Charles Aznavour, Brent Carver, Eric Bogosian
People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904 -1948) Read More »