War cult spreads invading new lives, leaving forgotten bombs that never exploded or that explode on a daily basis, obsessing the children in a vicious circle that originates even more violence. This experimental short film addresses the idea of warlike inheritance and encourages to question to what extent we are able to stop it and take up the torch.
War cult spreads invading new lives, leaving forgotten bombs that never exploded or that explode on a daily basis, obsessing the children in a vicious circle that originates even more violence. This experimental short film addresses the idea of warlike inheritance and encourages to question to what extent we are able to stop it and take up the torch.
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An aviator heads out in his fighter plane to fight in WWI, and his girlfriend watches as he leaves and waits for his return.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.
While on a seemingly routine delivery run for the Brigadier, Benton finds himself close to his childhood home, where ghosts from his past have never rested easily… Trapped in a nightmare world where past and present are one, will he be lost forever or can he fight his way back to reality, where he is desperately needed?
This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S. entry into World War II.
A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.
A young David Gan joins the WWII effort, eager to serve his country. Feelings of exclusion as a Chinese-American disappear in the Army. After experiencing the loss of so many fallen comrades, David dedicates his life to those who never came home.
Short documentary on people who survived the Nazi concentration camps.
An elderly man tells his granddaughter his personal story of the Second World War. His life as a child and all the strange characters he populates it with takes the little girl to a bizarre world she doesn't understand.
Five marine Operatives are stranded after crash landing in the barren Iraqi desert. They are under strict orders to deliver an important package to Ramadi and they have already been trekking through enemy territory for three days in hopes of completing their mission.
It’s a beautiful winter day. Four children are playing on the bridge, but fifth actor enters the game... The sniper.
A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.
As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.
This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm film stock and synchronized with a brass band rendition of Sousa's march "The Thunderer."
The intertwining fates of two Vietnamese sisters who sustain a wartime relationship through written correspondence.
Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to move on and begin a new life.
Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.
A romantic drama about love and jealousy. Two firefighters want the same girl. She almost gets married to Harry, but John sneakily keeps her from doing so, and then marries her himself. After a year, he has started drinking and has lost his job, and his wife has to go to work at the factory. When a fire breaks out there, he rescues her, but loses his own life in the process.
Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.