Morituri (1965)

En junio de 1944, cuando los aliados declaran el día-D y los últimos reductos alemanes huyen como los cuervos de la tormenta, en Kolar, Bélgica, los aliados tratan de reconstruir el pueblo... pero también allí quedan nazis que, como nubes negras, están dispuestos a procurar que la paz no llegue nunca. El instructor nazi, Frederick von Beck (George Coulouris), tomará la iniciativa, pero allí está el mayor Phil Carson (Stanley Ridges) y otros valientes para enfrentarlo y proteger al pueblo.

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...

This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest geographically unbroken political unit in the world, covering one-sixth of the world's land mass.

In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS. He then took refuge in the Great Mosque of Paris. The imam decides to protect him by passing him off as a Muslim, as well as the other Jewish children that he manages to free with the help of the resistance networks. The French militia and the Gestapo have suspicions... This fiction film is based on the true story of the rector of the Paris mosque, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, who saved several Jews from deportation during the Second World War.

In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

The Unknown Woman is a documentary film scripted and directed by Elina Kivihalme. It depicts the reality of Finnish agriculture and forestry during the war years, when the home front relied entirely upon the work and endurance of the women. All farm work, caring for the children, woodcutting and other forestry operations were undertaken by the civilians, as the men in their prime were on the front.

A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of their passage. Even though he is married to Anna and has a son, Julian falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian decides what to do about love and family, and Nina must find a way to move on.

In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi tank.

Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals the lead-up to the offensive, its impact on the war and the brinksmanship that resulted from the battle for Moscow. Rare footage from both German and Russian archives and detailed maps illustrate the conflict, while award-winning historian and author John Erickson provides insight into the pivotal maneuvers on the eastern front.

According to the Swiss documentary filmmaker Richard Dindo (1944), the media want to make us believe that Swiss non-alignment during World War II was only a thin veneer around Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitic feelings. This stirred his interest in the story of Paul Grüninger, a Swiss policeman who in the late thirties provided false travel documents to hundreds of Jews who had fled from Austria.

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.

A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation.

Este escalofriante y vital documental fue producido para conmemorar el 40 aniversario de la liberación del campo de concentración de Auschwitz. La película contiene imágenes inéditas de Auschwitz tomadas por las fuerzas militares soviéticas entre el 27 de enero y el 28 de febrero de 1945 e incluye una entrevista con Alexander Voronsov, el camarógrafo que filmó las imágenes. Las horribles imágenes incluyen: sobrevivientes; visita al campo por la comisión de investigación soviética; experimentos criminales en trabajadores forzados, evacuación de prisioneros enfermos y débiles con la ayuda de voluntarios rusos y polacos; Fotos aéreas de la IG Farben Works en Monowitz; y fotos de gente local limpiando el campamento bajo la supervisión soviética.

Año 1940, durante la ocupación alemana del ejército nazi en Francia. Lucile Angellier es una joven que aguarda noticias de su marido, prisionero de guerra, mientras lleva una sofocante existencia junto a su controladora suegra en un pequeño pueblo francés. Ambas viven ajenas a la realidad de la guerra hasta que un grupo de refugiados parisinos llega a la localidad huyendo de la ocupación, al que le sigue un regimiento de soldados alemanes que establecen sus residencias en los hogares de los habitantes del pueblo. En casa de los Angellier, Lucile intenta en un principio ignorar a Bruno, el elegante y refinado oficial alemán a quien se le ha encargado vivir con ellas.

Arun Khanna is a spy for the Indian government whose aid is enlisted to stop ISI Chief Ishak Khan. Khan is trying to build a nuclear bomb with which he can liberate Kashmir from the Indians. A battle of wits ensues. When Khan detonates a bomb at Khanna's engagement party to a fellow spy, Khanna's resolve is only strengthened. Now not only does he have to fight Khan, but he also has to track down his missing fiancee.

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.

A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.

Dear Enemy tells the true story of the director’s grandfather who became friends with a German officer during the WWII German occupation of Albania while hiding a partisan, an Italian soldier and a Jewish watchmaker in his cellar.

The complete series of documentaries about the events of World War II + film NUREMBERG. - Nazism and the conquests of the Germans (140 min): Escalation of war, which starts with the advent of Nazism and Hitler's expansionist ambitions. The causes immense tragedy turn into facts with declarations of war of the Germans and the occupation of France. - The Soviet resistance and the Japanese rule (155 min): The conflict comes alive with the fierce battles on the Russian front and the siege of Stalingrad. Across the world, the Japanese took control of the Asian region, up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. - The fall of fascism and the landing in Normandy (151 min): In Italy the armistice was signed and the country is split in two. On the one hand the Americans liberators, on the other hand the German occupation and the partisan struggle. - Auschwitz - Kamikaze - Atomic Bombs (75 min): Attacked on several fronts, the Germans collapse, showing the world the horror of the extermination camps.