The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
War
From Karkheh to Rhein (1993) Ebrahim Hatamikia
Saeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. Read More »
Appointment with Venus (1951) Ralph Thomas
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can’t prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. Read More »
Stella polaris (1993) Knut Erik Jensen
A woman returns up North to her rural fishing village, and re-lives the village’s history through work, war, rebuilding and depopulation. Read More »
Farewell to the King (1989) John Milius
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo Read More »
Sortez des rangs (1996) Fall Out
11-year-old Michel, whose father was shot in the wake of the 1917 army mutiny Read More »
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears – nobody knows they’ve been taken captive. Read More »
A Bridge Too Far (1977) Richard Attenborough
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. Read More »
Brainwashed (1960) Schachnovelle
In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil Read More »
The Night of the Assassin (1970) Appuntamento col disonore
During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks Read More »