
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. Read More »
War
Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933) Hans Steinhoff, Heinrich George, Berta Drews, Jürgen Ohlsen

In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic Read More »
The Falcon Fighters / Rikugun hayabusa sentotai (1969) Mitsuo Murayama, Makoto Satô, Shiho Fujimura, Sei Hiraizumi

In the days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Kato Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps Read More »
The Shop on Main Street AKA Obchod na korze (1965) Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Read More »
Le Roi de coeur / King of Hearts (1966) Philippe de Broca, Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur

During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town Read More »
Dokuritsu gurentai / Desperate Outpost (1959) Kihachi Okamoto, Makoto Satô, Izumi Yukimura, Misa Uehara

When Sergeant Okubo’s brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War Read More »
Fort Graveyard / Chi to suna (1965) Kihachi Okamoto, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô, Reiko Dan

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China Read More »
Bekstva / Escapes (1968) Rados Novakovic, Dusan Djuric, Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Ljuba Tadic

Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans. Read More »
The Last Metro / Le dernier métro (1980) François Truffaut, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs. Read More »
Forbidden Games (1952) René Clément, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée

A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. Read More »