Films: Second World War
A famine in the Henan province reveals the moral and political failings of the Nationalist Government of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A once wealthy landlord slowly loses his family...
The documentary centers on Kenzo Okuzaki (1921-2005), a 62-year-old veteran of Japan's campaign in New Guinea in the Second World War, and follows him around as he protests against Emperor...
A young woman escapes persecution by fleeing to a remote mountain village in Czechoslovakia during World War II. After Germans discover Eliška's ties to the Resistance, she travels with a former...
Director Feng Xiaoning fashions a tale of international understanding in this World War II drama. Towards the end of the war, a female Soviet officer, a Chinese peasant, and a Japanese school girl...
The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941) who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the...
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war,...