一番美しく (1944)

Woodland animal citizens learn how to extinguish different types of incendiary bombs and help fight back against an enemy air force of wolves.

The untold story of a world-renowned place of remembrance of the Holocaust in France, the internment camp of Drancy, which was the central transit for the near totality of the 76 000 deported Jews of France during World War II.

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, better known as Witkacy, enivsages the future horrors of the Polish nation, as embodied by Stalin and Hitler, and the world collapsing into chaos.

Ulla and Gunnar meet and fall in love in Stockholm in the late 1930s. Early in their relationship Ulla discovers that she is pregnant but she decides to get an abortion because she doesn't want to pressure Gunnar into marrying her. The outbreak of the war puts a strain on their relationship when Gunnar gets called up for military service.

Karl Bockerer is a Viennese original. He survives the ‘great times’ – to his own dismay his birthday is on the same day as the one of the “Führer” – by pretending to be more stupid than he really is, and uncovers, over and over again, the hypocrisy and the uptightness of the epic nonsense in his milieu by means of real and phony naivety. Where Schweijk made a mockery of the ruling system by being a presumptive follower, the Viennese butcher strives against the tide. And he is not alone, has family and friends. His personal braveness protects him neither from the rebellion in his own house, nor from the horrors of total war…

昭和46年冬、水木は「ゲゲゲの鬼太郎」などの執筆で忙しい中、無理やりに休暇をとって、赤道直 下のニューギニアを旅した。水木は、昭和18年21歳の時に召集され、ニューギニアのラバウルに 送られた。当時ニューギニアは連合軍に島の半分を占領され、日本軍の敗色は濃厚。水木二等兵は最 前線の小隊に配属され、過酷な戦場を生き抜いた。以来、26年ぶりに踏むニューギニアの大地だっ た。そして、これがそもそものきっかけだった・・・。昭和47年となり、日々「鬼太郎」の締め切り に追われる水木の周りで不可解な事件が起きる。行きもしないレストランからは請求書が届き、連れ 込み旅館で水 木の姿を見かけたと編集者には言われる始末。おまけに水木の行く先々には、夢か幻 か、南方の象徴である"ハイビスカス"の花が咲き誇っている・・・。やが て水木は「何者かに押される 形」で、自身の戦争体験を漫画に描き始めた・・・。昭和18年、丸山二等兵(=水木)は、ニューギ ニアのバイエンにいた。ここは米軍と対峙する日本軍の最前線基地。初年兵として陣地構築の為、椰 子の木を運 び、穴を掘り、食料調達に働かされる日々だった。要領の悪い丸山は鬼軍曹にビンタを 食らう毎日だった。敵襲に備える日々の中で、加山二等兵は、行軍の最中、敵の銃弾を浴びて倒れた 。丸山は彼の小指を切って遺骨代わりにした。入隊前からの戦友・赤崎は敵の機銃掃射にやられた・・ ・。そして、漫画は否応なく、戦友たち皆が玉砕したあの"聖ジョージ岬"へと進んでいく。総員が「 玉砕」への道に向かわざるを得なかった、あの理不尽な出来事へと・・・。

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

The experimental stop motion story of a London boy in World War 2, we witness war drawing inexorably closer as he comes of age. 14 when war begins, our young hero lives through bombings, the evacuation of his siblings, the privations of wartime. Yet he survives and even thrives. He sets out to search for his friend in the East End during those turbulent and frightening times, and with his own voice tells his story with a wit and verve few would believe today. Finally we leave him at the brink on D-Day, a hero already in the making.

Richard Overton, at 109 years old, is the oldest living WWII veteran. He lives alone, still drives, and has a 91 year old girlfriend named Ms. Love. In this snapshot of his daily life, we learn something about what life is like at 109 years. As he says, 'I may give out, but I'll never give up.'

British Air Ministry short film highlighting the need for the public to stay clear of aircraft wreckage during World War II.

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.