Razões para a Guerra (2005)

Em 1870 é enviado ao Japão o capitão Nathan Algren, um conceituado militar norte-americano. A missão de Algren é treinar as tropas do imperador Meiji, para que elas possam eliminar os últimos samurais que ainda vivem na região. Porém, após ser capturado pelo inimigo, Algren aprende com Katsumoto o código de honra dos samurais e passa a ficar em dúvida sobre que lado apoiar.

Rambo está preso em uma penitenciária federal quando recebe uma proposta: será perdoado e reintegrado ao Exército se participar de uma missão no Vietnã, onde terá que enfrentar todo tipo de inimigos, inclusive oficiais americanos corruptos.

Spike Lee conta a história de quatro veteranos de guerra afro-americanos que voltam ao Vietnã à procura dos restos mortais de seu comandante e de um tesouro enterrado.

Cherry deixa a faculdade para se tornar médico no Iraque, apoiado por sua amada, Emily. Ao voltar da guerra com estresse pós-traumático, se envolve com crime e drogas enquanto luta para reconquistar seu lugar no mundo.

Richard Gere é Simon, jornalista de guerra que, ao lado do cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard, "Homem de Ferro"), realizou grandes coberturas. Após testemunhar um massacre na Bósnia, Simon briga com sua emissora e desaparece. Anos mais tarde, Duck retorna à Bósnia e é procurado por Simon. Ele tem pistas sobre a localização do Raposa, o pior criminoso da guerra local, que tem uma recompensa de US$5 milhões por sua captura. Agindo contra ordens da ONU e confundidos com agentes da CIA, eles partem em sua busca. Baseado em uma história real.

Depois de ouvir sobre a heroica morte de um jovem fuzileiro naval no Iraque, o oficial veterano e tenente-coronel Michael Strobl torna-se voluntário para escoltar o corpo do cabo Chance Phelps de volta a sua cidade natal, no Wyoming. Durante esta viagem pelo coração da América, Strobl se encontra inesperadamente envolvido com uma nação em luto, não apenas por Phelps, mas por todos os heróis do país que tombaram em combate.

Com o início da segunda guerra mundial, Vin, o filho mais velho, regressa da universidade e se apaixona por Carol Beldon, neta de Lady Beldon, uma aristocrata de Beldon Hall, uma mansão vizinha. Apesar de discordâncias iniciais, se casam. Com a iminente ameaça de ataques aéreos à Inglaterra, Vin decide fazer sua parte e se junta à Força Aérea Real como piloto. É enviado para uma base localizada perto da casa dos pais. Clem ajuda na Operação Dynamo com o barco a motor da família. Sozinha em casa, a Sra. Miniver encontra um piloto alemão ferido em seu jardim. Ela o alimenta, o desarma calmamente e avisa às autoridades locais.

Baseado em fatos reais, o filme conta a história de um jornalista americano, seu cinegrafista e uma garota da Geórgia que acabam presos atrás das linhas inimigas, quando a Rússia invade o território, em agosto de 2008. Eles conseguem registrar terríveis crimes de guerra e vivem momentos importantes da história daquela região. Entre a verdade e a justiça, a guerra se alastra e transforma a tudo e a todos.

City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

David Bowie incorpora o major Celliers, um oficial britânico mantido pelos japoneses como prisioneiro de guerra. O comandante está obcecado com o misterioso loiro estranho, enquanto o tenente-coronel britânico Lawrence tenta superar as diferenças emocionais e linguísticas entre ele e seu captor.

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.

Billy Pilgrim, um veterano da Segunda Guerra Mundial, encontra-se misteriosamente distanciado do tempo, para poder viajar, sem poder ajudá-lo, desde os dias de sua infância até aqueles de sua vida peculiar em um planeta distante chamado Tralfamadore, passando por sua amarga experiência como prisioneiro de guerra na cidade alemã de Dresden, sobre a qual paira a sombra inevitável de uma tragédia indescritível.

O filme é uma representação gráfica das atrocidades de guerra realizadas pelos Japoneses na Unidade 731, a unidade secreta de experimentos com armas biológicas do Exército Imperial Japonês durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial. O filme detalha os diversos experimentos médicos crueis infligidos pela Unidade 731 aos prisioneiros Chineses e Soviéticos na reta final da guerra.

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes

On call 24/7 for the past six years, three senior citizens have made history by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine. Filled with unexpected turns, their uplifting and emotional journey demonstrates the meaning of community at a time when America needs it most.

Documentary directed by Tom Kleespie inspired from Korean War veterans who recall memories both painful and patriotic, putting a human face on an often forgotten conflict. Stories include wartime recollections, such as one soldier's first moments seeing a MiG fighter up close, and veterans' often-tragic experiences returning home, where Americans largely neglected to welcome them back.

Um olhar cronológico sobre o fiasco no Iraque, especialmente as decisões tomadas na primavera de 2003 - e os antecedentes daqueles que tomam decisões - imediatamente após a derrubada de Saddam: nenhum plano de ocupação, uma equipe inadequada para governar o país, tropas insuficientes para manter a ordem, e três decretos da Casa Branca anunciados por Bremmer quando assumiu.

Privatização descarada da guerra. Iraq for Sale é um documentário impressionante sobre como corporações como a Halliburton, ligada ao vice-presidente norte-americano Dick Cheney, estão lucrando de forma extremamente desonesta com a Guerra do Iraque. A terceirização de serviços péssimamente prestados e superfaturados não inclui apenas atividades acessórias… além de providenciar serviços de alimentação, escritório, lavanderia, transporte, etc, civis estiveram envolvidos nos interrogatórios e torturas dos prisioneiros de Abu Ghraib.

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.

A história da América vista através dos olhos de Robert McNamara, ex-secretário de Defesa dos presidentes John F. Kennedy e Lyndon B. Johnson. Documentário sobre Robert McNamara, secretário de Defesa nas administrações Kennedy e Johnson, que posteriormente se tornou presidente do Banco Mundial. O documentário combina uma entrevista com o Sr. McNamara falando de algumas das tragédias e glórias do século 20, imagens de arquivo, documentos, e uma trilha sonora original de Philip Glass.

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler examine modern America’s most controversial political contest: the 2000 election of George W. Bush. What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate’s brother. This 2004 Campaign Edition features new commentary by Danny Glover and a new segment on the dangers of electronic voting machines.

This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangerous impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

This documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several of the ways America can get its economy back on the right track. In addition to looking at the federal deficit and trade deficit, the film also closely explores the challenges of funding national entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive.

In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.

November, 1999, Margaret Cho is home in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. Cho structures her monologue loosely on her professional life's trajectory: doing stand-up, cast in an ABC-TV sitcom, losing 30 pounds in two weeks for the part, the show's cancellation, a descent into booze, pills, and self-loathing, and a resurrection into her own voice, her own shape, and being the one she wants.

A história de pilhagem dos grandes obras de arte da Europa durante os esforços da Segunda Guerra Mundial e aliados para minimizar os danos da Alemanha nazista.

Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who was brought up on terrorism charges for his involvement with the radical group.

Filmed like the travel journey of a Western traveler in search of Madagascar's customs. The pages turn, the drawings come to life, and the luxuriant landscapes of Madagascar appear one after another.

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.

While serving with the African Union, former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle documents the brutal ethnic cleansing occuring in Darfur. Determined that the Western public should know about the atrocities he is witnessing, Steidle contacts New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, who publishes some of Steidle's photographic evidence.

American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.

A partir da polêmica decisão da Suprema Corte de Justiça americana concluindo que uma corporação, aos olhos da lei, é uma "pessoa", são analisados os poderes das grandes corporações no mundo atual. A exploração da mão-de-obra barata no Terceiro Mundo e a devastação do meio ambiente são alguns dos fatos explorados, que entrevistam presidentes de corporações como a Nike, Shell e IBM, além de Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman e Michael Moore.