Tag: world war ii

  • In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain

    Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German “volunteers” who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain.

  • The Third Reich: The Rise & Fall

    An intimate, authentic portrait of Hitler’s Germany as recorded by the people who lived it. Never-before-seen home movies, Nazi propaganda films and personal recollections culled from German’s diaries, journals and letters provide a rare look inside the darker pages of world history.

  • The Fjällbacka Murders – The Hidden Child

    Erica’s parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

  • The Fighter Pilot

    A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

  • Salinger

    An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.

  • The Railway Man

    A victim from World War II’s “Death Railway” sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

  • Belle and Sebastian

    Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their sheep.

  • The Wolverine

    Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis – and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits – in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

  • The Book Thief

    While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

  • The Wind Rises

    A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.