Forgotten Wars, Forgotten Victims (2012) John Tsambazis Over the last 20 years, Africa has experienced some 15 devastating civil wars with over 20 million victims in death, injury or displacement. Yet the West has turned a blind eye. This documentary sheds light about the conflict and post conflict reconstruction in particular in West Africa , discussing issues such as child soldiers and the many damaged victims of war and how they have found support. Missionaries have played a vital role in the restoration and healing process of post war conflict. The documentary is narrated by the former Australian Rock Star Themi Adams, who once toured with the Rolling Stones and who now heads the Orthodox Mission in Sierra Leone. He talks about how his mission in particular is contributing to the recovery process.
Warsaw, September 19, 1940: a Polish officer is captured during a raid by the German army. In reality, the SS have just fallen into a trap. This man has organized everything to be arrested. His name: Witold Pilecki. His mission: to be interned in Auschwitz, to infiltrate the death camp. This film traces the story of one of the greatest resistance fighters of WWII, through the compilation of reports that the infiltrator smuggled to London from the concentration camp where he was detained.
During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years.
He is Khagani Aliyev, a resident of Saricali village of Aghdam. On July 23, 1993, Khagani Aliyev, who heard about another Armenian attack on Aghdam, went home to take his parents who had not left the village to a temporary safe area...
A young hippie woman goes to this Legion to find the pilot of the Mosquito fighter-bomber in which her father was the navigator during WWII. The woman's father, who recently died, has sent her to give this pilot a letter. The letter contains a surprising revelation.
An Iranian attack occurs on the middle sector, prompting a team of Iraqi special forces to attempt to repel the assault. A tough confrontation unfolds until an Iraqi aircraft intervenes, bombing enemy barracks, and allowing some of the soldiers to survive the battle.
In the year 2045, after the re-militarization of Japan, conflict erupts in Korea, and Japan is destroyed in the ensuing nuclear war. A survivor uses an old computer in the "zone" to produce a documentary from photographs, interviews and newsreels, reconstucting the last 100 years of Japanese history
South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself. However, through this darkness, its endless cycle of conflict has hope: the determination of young women and men who refuse to give up on peace.
Learn how the longest reigning monarch in British history was shaped by World War II. Princess Elizabeth’s experiences during the war mirrored those of the public and helped shape her into the Queen she is today.
Havana is occupied by foreign forces and on the edge of civil war. Lazaro, a kid from the slums, walks us through his streets and reveals the chaos that has taken over the capital.
The hero of the Russian-Ukrainian war has a classic manifestation of post-traumatic syndrome. Uncontrolled emotional manifestations, isolation, hallucinations, no one wants to have anything to do with him. No one needs him: neither the state nor his relatives. To no one, except the manager of the boarding house. The Soldier's case was of particular interest to a government official who suddenly arrived at the boarding house. After all, the boy's visions are not just hallucinations, they are omens and help to find out the fate of other missing soldiers. It turns out that this civil servant has his own pain that he hides. Oddly enough, the life destinies of these different people unexpectedly intersect.
Based on a true story of 10 young women, who volunteered to help with logistic activities at Đồng Lộc junction, a strategic junction of Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War.
A German soldier, after avoiding death in a Partisan raid, wanders through the unforgiving mountainous terrain of an unfamiliar country, helplessly seeking salvation.
Germany in 1941. War in Europe for two years. The Nazis at the height of their power. Since the beginning of the war, there has been a frontline in the west where the traces of horrible fights disappear on the spot:The Battle of the Atlantic. England, traditionally the leading naval power worldwide was to be cut off from all supplies by a blockade while the balance of power is not in favor of the German Kriegsmarine. Their commander-in-chief complains that "the war was five years early." That a victory seems achievable at the beginning is the result of a weapon that was only known in Germany at the height of perfection and drill: submarines.
During the Allied retreat on Dunkirk in May 1940, 99 captured English soldiers and officers were shot by an SS unit in a French village. The only survivor of the massacre Albert Pooley stakes health and life to find the murderer of his comrades. The television film shows the international solidarity of ordinary people, who are brought together by the memory of a terrible war crime and make this crime atone for. Based on a factual report by Cyril Jolly.
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