Films: Second World War

Director(s): Provencher, Raymonde, Journeyman Pictures, Launder, Frank, Gilliat, Sidney, Cavalcanti, Alberto, Hutton, Brian G., Chanya Button, Thomas Napper
Year: 2002
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A powerful documentary about the children conceived through rape during various wars in the late 20th century. Interviews with children and their mothers in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Rwanda, Nicaragua,...

Director(s): Provencher, Raymonde, Journeyman Pictures, Launder, Frank, Gilliat, Sidney, Cavalcanti, Alberto, Hutton, Brian G., Chanya Button, Thomas Napper
Year: 2012
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Using archival footage and oral history interviews, this documentary reveals the hidden history of women pilots during World War II. The high stakes of war convinced military officials in Britain...

Director(s): Provencher, Raymonde, Journeyman Pictures, Launder, Frank, Gilliat, Sidney, Cavalcanti, Alberto, Hutton, Brian G., Chanya Button, Thomas Napper
Year: 1945
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Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film, the third installment in an "unofficial trilogy" according to the British Film Institute, preceded by ...

Director(s): Provencher, Raymonde, Journeyman Pictures, Launder, Frank, Gilliat, Sidney, Cavalcanti, Alberto, Hutton, Brian G., Chanya Button, Thomas Napper
Year: 1942
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Went the Day Well? is a 1942 British war film adapted from a story by Graham Greene titled "The Lieutenant Died Last," and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. It was produced by Michael...

Director(s): Provencher, Raymonde, Journeyman Pictures, Launder, Frank, Gilliat, Sidney, Cavalcanti, Alberto, Hutton, Brian G., Chanya Button, Thomas Napper
Year: 1968
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Widely praised for its action sequences, Where Eagles Dare follows an international commando unit of Allied soldiers stages a daring rescue during World War II. A U.S. general is being held...

Director(s): Provencher, Raymonde, Journeyman Pictures, Launder, Frank, Gilliat, Sidney, Cavalcanti, Alberto, Hutton, Brian G., Chanya Button, Thomas Napper
Year: 2019
Abstract:

This series is an emotionally gripping, intense World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries as they grapple with the effects of the war on their...

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