Exploring the intersection of cinema and warfare, this documentary reveals how iconic films from "Casablanca" to "Twelv…
Tracing cinema's early days, this exploration delves into how films from "The Birth of a Nation" to "All Quiet on the W…
This personal journey expands into a broader exploration of women's rights in Iran, as Keshavarz joins forces with five…
Though set in Quito, Ecuador, this languid documentary is more preoccupied with the ghosts of European history and with…
Five young individuals intertwine their war experiences with Shakespeare's "Hamlet," facing the existential question of…
Against the backdrop of Peru's Andes, individuals navigate the remnants of the 20th-century armed conflict, guided by t…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
With direct access from the inside of the war against ISIS, this documentary follows two leaders of a group of Shiite v…
An old woman from Mong Htet, in northern Shan State in Myanmar, looks back on a life marked by privation and loss. Her …
In Serravalle Langue's historic hide-and-seek game, Edo searches for 299 villagers to win the Golden Hazelnut, but amid…
In post-genocide Rwanda, young Clementine's escape from home thrusts her into Kigali's dark underbelly, but amidst life…
A young boy's questions about a peace plebiscite in Colombia open the door to his family's haunting past marred by guer…
In post-genocide Rwanda, a survivor's path crosses again with her assailant; from the depths of cruelty and pain, an un…
In this educational short film made by the UN, delve into the complex mechanisms of the UN as it navigates internationa…
Amidst the lingering shadows of the Somali civil war, Qaali, an asthmatic single mother of seven, braves the slums of K…
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism a…
When his piano is destroyed in the Syrian war, pianist and composer Ayham Ahmad continues to make music of resistance n…
After serving on the war front in Ukraine, Oksana Yakubova wages an invisible struggle with post-traumatic stress disor…
This animated short film illustrates the adventure of Lino, an Italian partisan and his companions in their attempt to …
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
Set in the majestic mountains of Taiwan, this documentary relies on extensive archival and testimonial material to tell…
In the vicinity of Europe's largest military base, nature and its creatures prevail among men preparing for war.
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
When the premises of the peace treaty in Colombia are threatened by a new government, two coca and marijuana growers fi…
After the signing of the peace treaty between the guerrillas and the Colombian State, the sixth front of the FARC-EP be…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
Unveiling a little-known version of the beginning of World War II, this informative documentary brings to light the her…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
Using footage filmed by intrepid cameramen, in the middle of the firing line in battle, this propaganda film documents …
This propaganda film commissioned by the United States government was shown to the troops that would occupy Germany jus…
The last episode in the Why We Fight saga focuses on the United States' decision to intervene in the resistance to the …
The sixth film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight saga introduced US soldiers and audiences to Japan's invasion of China and…
The second of two parts of the film that explains the Russian resistance to the Nazi invasion during WWII. The fifth in…
The first of two parts of the film that explains the Russian resistance to the Nazi invasion during WWII. The fifth ins…
The fourth installment in Frank Capra's Why We Fight series. After the fall of France, the Nazis focus their strength o…
In the third installment of the Why We Fight series, director Frank Capra describes Hitler's deceptive strategy to conq…
The second episode of Frank Capra's Why We Fight saga. Seen from the American government propaganda, Nazi Germany is pr…
This is the first episode of the epic saga commissioned by the United States government during World War II, directed b…
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