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61) Manhattan: S2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows the tangled lives of the residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, as they race to create the first nuclear bomb in history. Locked away in the world's most secretive city, the scientists and their families surrender their freedoms, compromise their marriages, and even sacrifice their sanity to end one war and usher in another--the Cold War waiting just over the atomic horizon--all while embedded spies and a climate of paranoia threaten to destroy...
63) Fateless
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Fourteen-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary, as he is sent to a concentration camp, where he is forced to become a man, and learns to find happiness in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
64) Unknown Soldier
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Finnish
Description
UNKNOWN SOLDIER by award-winning Finnish director Aku Louhimies follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. The film tells the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms, showing how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to and from the battlefield. The war changes each of the soldiers, as well as the lives of those...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements, for the rigorous training he puts them through. From training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Nominated for four **Academy Awards**, including Best Writing and Best Actor. "*There are internal wars and interpersonal battles waged between many of his characters across many of [Dwan’s] films....
67) The Keeping Room
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this radically reimagined Western, three southern women encounter two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence.
68) The Railway Man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Colin Firth stars as a former army officer who sets out on a mission of revenge to confront the man who tormented him while he was prisoner at a Japanese labor camp during World War II.
69) Girls of the Sun
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bahar, commander of the “Girls of the Sun” battalion, is preparing to liberate her hometown from extremists. A French journalist comes to cover the attack and bear witness to these exceptional warriors.
70) Beanpole
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. As the film begins, Iya, long and slender and towering over everyone—hence the film’s title—works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital, presiding over traumatized soldiers. A shocking accident brings them closer...
73) Macbeth
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this thrilling adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy about betrayal, war, and madness.
75) A French Village
Publisher
MHz Networks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
This acclaimed drama is about the German occupation of France during World War II, and its effects on the inhabitants of a small village in Jura. In June 1940, the village of Villeneuve awakes to the arrival of the German army - and the next four years of occupation have a shattering effect on the lives of all its inhabitants.
76) The Boat Is Full
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), THE BOAT IS FULL is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII. A ragtag band of exiles from Germany sneak into Switzerland seeking asylum. They are allowed to stay at an isolated inn as long as they pretend to be a family. In order to maintain this deception they must communicate with a young French-speaking boy, who cannot understand the...
77) Jack Strong
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the communist block's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law. Nominated for Best Film at the **Polish Film Awards** and the **Polish Film Festival**. "*With its solid performances, nice attention to period detail and a foreboding rumble of a symphonic score by Jan Duszynski, Jack Strong adds a unique Eastern Bloc POV to the enduring...
78) Manhattan: S1
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science--the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb In Los Alamos, New Mexico-- Manhattan follows the project's brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set during the Thirty Years’ War, in the first half of the 17th century: Anna Fierling, also called Mother Courage, is a merchant with a wagonload of food and goods. She stays out of politics, following the armies as they move back and forth across Central Europe, and does not bemoan war’s injustices. She is passionately committed to her three children and tries to protect them. But one after the other, she loses them to the war from which she...
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