At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can’t prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. Read More »
War
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 »
One Minute to Zero (1952) Tay Garnett
During the early days of the Korean War, U.S. Army colonel Steve Janowski is one of the military advisers training Read More »
The Silent Raid (1962) De overval
In 1944 Resistance fighter Bakker is sent to a prison in Leeuwarden by the Gestapo. Read More »