WWII in HD: The Air War (2010)

2006年、東京都小笠原諸島硫黄島。地中から発見された数百通もの手紙。それは61年前この島で戦った男たちが家族に宛てて書き残したものだった。届くことのなかった手紙に、彼らは何を託したのか。＜第2次世界大戦時の最も悲劇的な戦いと言われる「硫黄島の戦い」を、日米双方の視点から描く“硫黄島プロジェクト”の日本側視点の作品。硫黄島でアメリカ軍を悩ませた伝説の陸軍中将である栗林忠道と彼の部下たちによる死闘が描かれる。監督はクリント・イーストウッド。渡辺謙、二宮和也ら日本人俳優が出演する。＞

アメリカ中部の町に帰還した3人の復員兵。義手になったホーマーは家族の同情に傷つき、アルは銀行家としての豊かな生活に戻り、フレッドの新妻は家を出ていた。明暗が分かれる3人の運命が見事に描かれている。

チャップリンがアドルフ・ヒトラーの独裁政治を批判した作品で、ヒトラーとナチズムに対して非常に大胆に非難と風刺をしつつ、ヨーロッパにおけるユダヤ人の苦況をコミカルながらも生々しく描き、ニューヨーク映画批評家協会賞で主演男優賞を受賞した。 またこの作品は、チャップリン映画初の完全トーキー作品でもある。 1918年の第一次大戦末期、トメニアのユダヤ人一兵卒チャーリーは飛行機事故で記憶を失い入院する。それから数年後のトメニアは独裁者アデノイド・ヒンケルの天下で、ユダヤ人掃討の真っ最中。そんな折、退院したチャーリーは生まれ育ったユダヤ人街で元の床屋の職に戻る。親衛隊の傍若無人ぶり、特にそれが恋人ハンナに及ぶに至り、彼は勇猛果敢かつ抱腹絶倒のレジスタンスを開始。それがどういうわけかヒンケル総統の替え玉を演じさせられることになり……。

Returning home after fighting in Africa during World War II, a soldier with PTSD finds reintegrating with family life increasingly difficult as he relives the battle of Kasserine Pass.

Albin Skoda embodies a frantic Adolf Hitler in his last days, scrambling to keep the Third Reich alive as morale within the bunker wanes and Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Based on Michael A. Musmanno's book Ten Days to Die, Oscar Werner costars as fictional Nazi Hauptmann Wüst, a disillusioned middleman.

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

In the 1940's American-born Willard MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing authorities he lived as a hermit deep in the northern wilderness of Nova Scotia, Canada for more than 60 years inspiring folklore for generations.

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague occupation SS troops in World War II. —kratkyfilm.cz

A film about a district in Buda, which to this day cannot face the inconceivably cruel crimes committed by its former inhabitants.

占領下のフランス、ドイツ軍司令部を壊滅させるため、12人の囚人による特殊部隊が組織された。目指すは鉄壁の防御を誇る古城。彼らは命を顧みず、敵地深く潜入するが……。 いずれ劣らぬクセ者俳優たちが、それぞれのプロフェッショナルぶりを発揮する傑作アクション。

During WWII, Darrel was stationed in Europe. Andrew was fighting in the Philippines. In the chaos of combat, each stole valuable treasures and hid them overseas before returning to civilian life in America. Sixty years later, back in America, neither man seems remorseful about their war crimes. Both want to recover the treasures they perceive as their own. They don't know each other but they both happen to know Lance, an inventor, used-car salesman, and amateur treasure-hunter, who, against all odds and better judgment, attempts to help them find their lost looted goods.

1942年11月、工業地帯スターリングラードを巡って枢軸軍とソビエト赤軍が繰り広げた史上最大の市街戦を、ソ連軍の視点からリアルに描いた戦争アクション。最新VFXによる戦闘シーンなど、見どころ満載。

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best friend's girl. As the Resistance struggle continues, some of the "little teachers" are killed, and the brutal reality of war leaves its mark on their youthful idealism.

Part of "Pearl Harbor" Collector 4 Pack boxed set. Fifty years after Japan brought the U.S. into World War II, former adversaries met for the first time in friendship, at a retrospective symposium and air show re-enactment hosted by the Admiral Nimitz Museum. The men who has fought there reviewed the surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Clark Field in the Philippines, gathering in Texas to show respect and to reminisce about the heroics and fortunes of war. Mixing the aviation images of contemporary artists with interviews and historic footage, this is a unique fiftieth anniversary tribute to the brave patriots on both sides, who fought for their countries and ways of life.

Brigadier General Stanley M. Ulanoff, a widely decorated military historian who served with the Counterintelligence Corps in Europe during World War II, introduces this gripping documentary film. At 7:55 AM on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, which FDR called "a date which will live in infamy," the Japanese began an air attack that devastated the Pacific fleet and took the lives of 2,343 servicemen. Lt. Cmdr. John Ford skillfully blends historic action with studio shots in this Oscar-winning look at the day's events. Also included is The Fleet That Came to Stay, concerning the invasion of Okinawa.

Pearl Harbor Payback: The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor united all Americans against a common foe, and from that day forward they spared nothing in order to mobilize against the menace that continued to threaten them in the Pacific. Also included are Target Tokyo, a 1945 documentary narrated by Ronald Reagan, which follows the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortresses, and another World War II short film, Air War Against Japan. Appointment in Tokyo: Featuring enemy film taken from captured Japanese newsreels, this 1945 documentary depicts MacArthur's long struggle to fight his way back to the Philippines, after his enf-rced evacuation, and beyond to Japan. From Australia, he cut through the jungle of New Guinea and up the stairway of islands, making good on his promise to return, as Adm. Chester Nimitz went from Hawaii through the Gilberts, Marshalls, and Marianas.

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.