The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka “Frederick the Great”) Read More »
War
Sarraounia (1986) Med Hondo, Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine
On January 2 1899, beginning from the French Soudan, a french pillar below the commandment of the captains Voulet Read More »
Oorlogswinter / Winter in Wartime (2008) Martin Koolhoven
Near the end of World War II, 14-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance Read More »
Storm Over the Pacific / Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi (1960) Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi, Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. Read More »
The Peach Thief (1964) Vulo Radev, Nevena Kokanova, Rade Markovic, Mikhail Mikhajlov
World War I is coming to its end. Prisoners of war are coming into the town with Serb Ivo among them. Read More »
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949, the British warship Amethyst Read More »
The Hero (2004) Zézé Gamboa, Makena Diop, Milton ‘Santo’ Coelho, Maria Ceiça
When he was 15, Vitório was recruited by Angolan army, where he would stay for two decades fighting. Read More »
Raintree County (1957) Edward Dmytryk, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
An abolitionist John Wickliff Shawnessy drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither Read More »
Royal Children (1962) Frank Beyer, Annekathrin Bürger, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thein
Set in the historical context of anti-Nazi resistance, this love story explores the moral issues of the period. Read More »
Tank T-34 (1965) Nikita Kurikhin, Leonid Menaker, Vyacheslav Gurenkov, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Valeriy Pogoreltsev
During World War II, a squad of Soviet POWs steals a tank from Nazi test site and rushes into a desperate shoot over Germany. Read More »