The Gap (1937)
ジャンル : 戦争, ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 38分
演出 : Donald Carter
シノプシス
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
The incredible story of Bruno Lüdke (1908-44), the alleged worst mass murderer in German criminal history; or actually, a story of forged files and fake news that takes place during the darkest years of the Third Reich, when the principles of criminal justice, subjected to the yoke of a totalitarian system that is beginning to collapse, mean absolutely nothing.
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
ユダヤ人の大量虐殺が行われていた第二次世界大戦中の1941年。ベラルーシに住むユダヤ人の3兄弟、トゥヴィア、ズシュ、アザエル(は子どものころからの遊び場だった森に逃げ込む。だが、彼らの思惑とは裏腹に、逃げ惑うユダヤ人たちが次々と森に集まり始める。
物語は、広島県広島市舟入本町(現在の広島市中区舟入本町)に住む国民学校2年生の主人公・中岡元(なかおか げん “以下、ゲン”)が、当時日本と交戦していたアメリカ軍により1945年8月6日に投下された原爆で、父・大吉(だいきち)、姉・英子(えいこ)、弟・進次(しんじ)の3人を亡くしながらも、たくましく生きる姿を描く。
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.
Aleksandar Zograf, a renowned cartoonist discovers an unusual comic book from World War II. The comic’s hero is Kaktus Kid – a small cactus trapped in his pot. Intrigued, Zograf investigates into the life of Kaktus Kid’s creator – little known artist Veljko Kockar. He soon discovers that Kockar was arrested just after the liberation of Belgrade in 1944. He was charged for being a Gestapo agent and executed. Zograf’s investigation reveals a far more complex story: Kockar’s identity and artistic works were stolen, he possibly has an affair with the girlfriend of a guerilla soldier and he drew anti-communist propaganda for the Nazis. As he explores the story and pieces together the scraps of evidence 70 years after it happened Zograf is faced with his own personal and artistic dilemmas: why do these little drawings have such power to give consolation but also lead to violence?
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD is the second DVD in this sensational new series, The Dark Ages, which delves into a war-torn and obscure period of Britain's past to focus on some of the pivotal events that completely altered the history, culture and politics of the British Isles. In the year 878 AD, Alfred King of Wessex faced the fourth and most serious attempt by the devious Viking chieftain Guthrum to seize the last remaining Saxon kingdom. Thwarted in their conventional attempts in 871, 876 and 878, the Vikings, stole away from their base in Gloucester and descended on Alfred's court while they were celebrating Twelfth Night on the borders of wintery Wessex at Chippenham. Alfred escaped but was driven into hiding in the Somerset Marshes, while the Vikings fanned across Wessex.
The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.
大戦中のヨーロッパ戦線を舞台に、連合軍のならず者たちが繰り広げるアクション・コメディ。連合軍のアメリカ兵ケリーは、捕虜の敵軍将校から、とっておきの情報を引き出した。それは、ドイツ軍占領下のフランス銀行に千万ドル単位の金の延べ棒が保管されているということ。彼は早速ビッグ・ジョーら仲間を集めて金塊の強奪計画を練り、現地へ出発する。奇襲作戦などで敵の防衛網をくぐり抜けていくケリーたちは、次々に味方を失いながらも戦線を突破。そして、ついに戦車で厳重ガードされた目的の銀行へ辿り着き、金の延べ棒をめぐって激しい攻防戦が開始されるのだが…。
1943年、南太平洋ソロモン諸島ガダルカナル。上官の戦死で小隊を指揮することになったエンダーズ伍長だったが、日本軍の猛攻の前に若い兵士たちを次々と失い、自らは負傷しながらも唯一の生き残りとして心と体に深い傷を負い帰還する。責任を感じるエンダーズは一刻も早い復隊を希望する。ようやく復隊が認められたエンダーズに課せられた新たな任務は、“ウインドトーカーズ”と呼ばれたナバホ族の通信兵とペアを組んで護衛し、彼の戦場での安全を確保することだった。しかし、真に必要とされたのは暗号の秘密の死守で、そのためにはいかなる犠牲を厭うなとの極秘指令も含まれていた……。
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited by the national park administration in 1957 to get a precise picture of the animal migrations and to provide the national park administration with the values they needed for their project. Using a new counting method with two airplanes, the Grzimeks found out that the migration of the herds was different than assumed.