Anthony “Swoff” Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. Read More »
War
Bloody Christmas / Matomena Hristougenna (1951) Giorgos Zervos, Ellie Lambeti, Nikos Hatziskos, Athanasia Moustaka
Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II Read More »
White Squadron / Lo squadrone bianco (1936) Augusto Genina, Fulvia Lanzi, Francesca Dalpe, Fosco Giachetti
Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post Read More »
Darkness Fell Over Gotenhafen / Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (1960) Frank Wisbar, Sonja Ziemann, Gunnar Möller, Erik Schumann
At the beginning of 1945, Germany is a defeated nation. Its armies in the east are in full retreat. Read More »
The Last Train / Posledniy poezd (2003) Aleksey German Jr., Pavel Romanov, Pyotr Merkurev, Aleksey Devotchenko
In early winter of 1944, as the Nazi army flees the Soviet advance, two Germans Read More »
Mrs. Miniver (1942) William Wyler, Greer Garson
The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. Read More »
An Apple from Paradise (2010) Homayun Morowat, Hashmat Fanaei, Rajab Gussainov, Mohaiuddin Safa
A pious old man, who is a proponent of suicide attackers, comes to Kabul to visit his only son Read More »
Ace of Aces (1933) J. Walter Ruben, Richard Dix, Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Bellamy
A sculptor who doesn’t want to have any part of World War I is shamed Read More »
Shout at the Devil (1976) Peter R. Hunt, Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins
Just prior to World War One the hard drinking sharpshooting, Irish American Colonel Flynn O’Flynn Read More »
Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942) Oliver H.P. Garrett, Virginia Bruce, James Ellison, Aubrey Mather
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WWII, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. Read More »