Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 2004
Abstract: Head in the Clouds focuses on the lives of three young lovers torn between pursuing their passions and defending their homelands. Gilda, an American-French woman, and her lovers Guy, a...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 1968
Abstract: During World War II, Japanese naval officer Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda (Toshirô Mifune) is stranded on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. He soon discovers a loudmouthed American pilot (Lee...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 2018
Abstract: 1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, Jozef...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 1959
Abstract: This influential French New Wave film uses a disintegrating love affair to explore memory in post-World War II Japan. The film revolves around a deep conversation between a Japanese architect (...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 2015
Abstract: This BBC series tells the story of British women’s war efforts through the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 1994
Abstract: A British officer tries to assert his control over a small village after the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. A thriving black market, corruption, and deceit characterize the town,...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 1995
Abstract: A critical and popular success, Red Cherry presents an account of the devastating effects of World War II on children. Two Chinese orphans studying in Moscow at the International School...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 1987
Abstract: Director John Boorman drew from his own childhood experiences for this touching coming-of-age tale about a boy growing up in and around London during World War II. For young Billy Rowan (Sebastian...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 2010
Abstract: Beginning with its controversial interpretation of the Setif massacre in 1945, in which French soldiers killed Algerians following riots and protests, Outside the Law, reveals how young...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 1988
Abstract: Based on a 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015), Grave of the Fireflies is a devastating meditation on the human cost of war. This...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 2006
Abstract: In the late 1930s Nella Last, a housewife aged 49, living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North-West English coast,agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass-Observation project, a non-...
Director(s): Duigan, John, Boorman, John, Jimenez, Cedric, Resnais, Alain, Simon Block, Coletti, Enrico, Ying, Ye, Bouchareb, Rachid, Takahata, Isao, Millar, Gavin, Wisbar, Frank
Year: 1959
Abstract: This West German film uses the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February1943) in World War II to convey an anti-war and anti-Nazi message. A young and idealistic lieutenant of the German army...
