Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

In the wake of World War II, most Germans have been raised with the mistaken belief that the Holocaust had been planned and executed by just a tiny minority of Nazis, namely, the Gestapo and the SS. The sad truth, however, is that Hitler's philosophy of ethnic cleansing, as the Fuhrer so brazenly espoused in his frightening manifesto, "Mein Kampf," had been enthusiastically embraced not only by the entire military but also by most of the civilian population. The long-suppressed proof of their widespread collaboration and participation was unveiled in The Wehrmacht Exhibition, a damning collection of photographs and film footage that toured Deutschland between 1999 and 2004. The show shook the country to its core because it forced folks to face up to the fact that it took much more than a madman and his henchmen to wipe out six million.

Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Huelva to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

A tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.

Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

神戸市で妻とバッテリー商を営む奥崎謙三は、自らを「神軍平等兵」と名乗り、「神軍」の旗たなびく車に乗って日本列島を疾駆する。ある日、自身がかつて所属していた独立工兵第36連隊で、終戦後23日も経ってから敵前逃亡の罪で2人の兵士が処刑されていたことを知った奥崎は、その遺族らとともに真相究明に乗り出す。時には暴力も辞さない奥崎の執拗な追及により、元兵士たちの口から事件の驚くべき真実と戦争の実態が明かされていく。

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.

Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre depicts the brutal events behind the Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese army against the Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.

イラクで恋人を失ったジャーナリストのトマス・アンダース（ルパート・フレンド）は、戦場への取材に再び赴くを決め、民族紛争に揺れるグルジアへと向かう。2008年8月8日未明、ロシアの軍事介入によって戦争が始まり、彼はロシア軍の非武装地帯への空爆を告発しようとする。しかし、世間は北京で開催中のオリンピックに目が向いており、この事態を報道しようとするメディアはなかった。

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

1940年、とある農村に住む青年、黒川久蔵は日中戦争の激化に伴い徴兵を受け、戦地へと赴いた。それから4年後、久蔵は頭部に深い火傷を負い、四肢を失った姿で村に帰還する。戦線で爆弾の爆発に巻き込まれた彼は、声帯を傷つけて話すこともできない上、耳もほとんど聴こえない状態になっていた。「不死身の兵士」と新聞に書き立てられ、少尉にまで昇進した久蔵を村人は「軍神様」と呼び崇め称える。しかし親戚たちは彼の変わり果てた姿に絶望し、妻であるシゲ子に世話を全て押し付けてしまう。

1939年9月、7歳の少年ビルはロンドン郊外の映画館で第二次世界大戦の始まりを知る。鉛の兵隊で遊ぶのが好きな彼は「本物」の戦争に胸を躍らせたが、まもなく父クライブが出征、勇ましい気持ちは寂しさに変わる。15歳になるビルの姉は、カナダ兵の恋人とデートを繰り返し、母親と衝突していた。そんなある日、ビル一家は戦火で家を失い、田舎の祖父の家に移り住むことに。そこには、戦時中とは思えないのどかな生活が待っていた・・・

A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.

湾岸戦争で出会った勇敢で個性的な兵士4人、リーダーのハンニバルらからなる特殊部隊《Aチーム》は、イラクの戦場で再びチームを結成。イラク戦争末期、ゲリラが米ドル紙幣の偽造原版や偽札を持って逃げるのを阻止する任務に就くが、奪回した偽造原版を何者かに盗まれ、チームに指令を下した上官が殺されるなどの事態が連続し、《Aチーム》はすべての責任を負わされそうになる。裁判の前に逃げた4人は彼らをはめた黒幕を追う。

ルイ・マル監督自身の自伝的作品。1944年、ナチス占領下のフランスで、12歳の少年ジュリアンは転入生ジャンと友達になる。しかし彼がユダヤ人であることが知られゲシュタポに連れ去られてしまい……。