Friends at Arms (1958)
Género : Comedia, Bélica, Familia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 27M
Director : Sven Methling
Sinopsis
Every year, thousands of young men are summoned to undergo an education where completely different demands are made than in civilian life. The soldiers must be in perfect physical form and they must learn to deal with modern weapons.
A documentary about the UN sex abuse scandal where companies and staff working for the United Nations in the Congo and other Central African countries were involved in rape and sex abuse of local women. There have been over 1700 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against UN peacekeepers in the last 15 years. Ramita Navai reveals why it keeps happening despite UN promises to stamp it out. It was produced for Channel 4 and for PBS Frontline – and ARTE. The film won the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Journalism award for Television – International. Nominated for 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. Shortlisted for 2019 Grierson Awards for Best Single Documentary – International and Best Current Affairs Documentary. In 2020, the documentary won the 22nd Media Awards for “Children’s Rights in One World” in Germany.
Filmed in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, Lusine Sargsyans drama depicts the lives of various individuals living in an apartment complex during the Armenian-Azerbadjanian war of the mid 1990’s. The situation is cruel and hard for the citizens of Yerevan. The need for food and electricity is dominating the international news from the city, while inside this abode in the centre of the city daily life goes on in spite of desperation. A rare narrative insight into a war that had a huge impact on Armenian life, Sargsyans five unique stories about relationships, struggles and faith preach a down-to-earth sermon about the cruelty of wars, and the strength of humour, love, and community.
Aunque una erupción volcánica puede ocurrir sin ninguna señal previa, lo más probable es que los volcanes emitan diferentes tipos de advertencias antes de que comience la erupción. Apenas lo vimos venir.
Private first class Yoon-suk got a day out and breaks up with his girlfriend, Mi-jin. On the way, Yoon-suk meets a film majoring student Sun-young and she asks him if he could be the role of a dumped soldier.
Philip "HAWK" Hawkins no solo sueña con matar vampiros: come, duerme, bebe y lo respira. Después de ser expulsado del Ejército por apostar a un compañero soldado con un porro de dos por cuatro, Hawk casi muere de aburrimiento trabajando como guardia de seguridad nocturno en un almacén desierto en su ciudad natal de Santa Muerte, California - EE. UU. Justo cuando parece que todas las opciones de Hawk en la vida han expirado, aparecen vampiros sucios chupadores de sangre. Y, por supuesto, nadie le cree. Con la espalda contra la pared, su sudorosa diadema de Karate Kid puesta y hordas de vampiros asesinos sedientos de sangre acercándose, Hawk solicita la ayuda de la única persona que le cree: Revson "REV" McCabe, un vegano tonto. jardinero pacifista. Juntos unen fuerzas para salvar a todo el maldito mundo. Bueno, al menos su ciudad natal de todos modos.
The story of 600 men who protected and rescued civilians during the Rwandan genocide before helping to liberate their country in 1994.
The film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War. The film tells about the heroism of the sons of Azerbaijan, who fought for the Motherland to the last drop of blood in spite of everything in the Karabakh war.
An army sniper contemplates the lives of those he is tasked with eliminating.
La increíblemente poderosa y oportuna historia real del Vigésimo Cuarto Regimiento de Infantería de Estados Unidos y el motín de Houston de 1917. El motín de Houston fue un motín de 156 soldados afroamericanos en respuesta a la violencia brutal y el abuso a manos de Oficiales de policía de Houston.
En un mundo fuertemente polarizado, ¿es posible encontrar un territorio común para construir la paz? Después de 52 años de conflicto armado, la guerrilla de las FARC está a punto de entregar sus armas a cambio de la participación política y la inclusión social de los pobres. Ernesto es uno de ellos. El tan celebrado acuerdo de paz colombiano arroja a Ernesto y a la sociedad polarizada que lo rodea a un caos en el que todos temen por futuro y por la propia supervivencia.
A film adaptation of Cameron Mackintosh's musical that starred Lea Salonga.
Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in Stockholm, Yuriko helps her husband's intelligence activities. She encrypts the highly classified information obtained by Makoto and sends it in coded telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Japan every day. Husband and wife have jointly undertaken this intelligence work for confidentiality.
Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using stock-and-archive footage, tells the story of World War I from inception to conclusion. Alternating with scenes of trench warfare and intimate glimpses of European royalty at home, and scenes of conflict at sea combined with sequences of films from the secret archives of many of the involved nations.
A drama about the love and subsequent life story of agronom Elmer Oras and Margi Kaski and their son. The story has its origins just before the Winter War. After a brief encounter, both fell in love. As a result of this love affair, Margit gets pregnant Soon the war breaks out and Elmer has to go the front. As the war goes on, Elmer does not return from a patrol mission behind the enemy lines. After the war times are hard for Margit and his fatherless son.
Old resistance fighters Truus and Freddie look back on their life during wartime.
Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrophic error that unleashed an era of totalitarianism and genocide.
Marlin (Joe Wilcox) and his slightly crazy but loving wife Elvira (Lauren Campbell) are having money troubles in the 1940’s. Marlin seems to have caught his lucky break when a powerful person in the war is interested in him making a propaganda movie for him. Unfortunately the couple may have bitten off more than they could chew.
During the war in Vietnam, thousands of people in the Vietnamese province of Cu Chi lived in an elaborate system of underground tunnels. THE CU CHI TUNNELS is the story of life underground told by the people who lived the experience.
