A Propos of the Truce with Finland (1944)
Gênero : Documentário, Guerra
Runtime : 49M
Director : Yuli Raizman
Sinopse
A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the resolution of the war. The film contains plenty of unique footage of the final stages of the Continuation War.
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
Oro, Plata, Mata follows two aristocratic families in Negros during World War II. It is structured in three parts: Oro a life of luxury and comfort in the city, Plata a still-luxurious time of refuge in a provincial hacienda, and finally Mata a toilsome retreat deeper into the mountains.
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdansk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig/Gdansk. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. It was the first obstacle to Hitler's predatory march across Europe. The first shots of World War II were fired here. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various political intrigues.
WWII from Space oferece a Segunda Guerra Mundial de uma maneira que você nunca experimentou antes. Este especial HISTORY usa um olho CGI que tudo vê, que oferece uma visão de satélite do conflito, permitindo que você o experimente de uma maneira que coloque os principais eventos e pontos de inflexão em uma perspectiva global. Ao recriar momentos inovadores que nunca poderiam ter sido captados com câmera, e ilustrando a importância da simultaneidade e os efeitos ocultos de incidentes cruciais, a HISTORY apresenta os momentos monumentais da guerra em um contexto nunca antes visto. E com novas informações trazidas à tona, você entenderá melhor como uma nação classificada em 19º lugar nas forças armadas do mundo em 1939 surgiu seis anos depois como a única superpotência atômica do planeta.
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary.
Um drama histórico que retrata a relação entre Dietrich von Choltitz, o governador militar alemão de Paris ocupada, e o cônsul geral sueco Raoul Nordling.
In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands of whomever holds the reigns of control.
Parte 1 e Parte 2
Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history are chronicled in the piercing documentary Camps of Death. Following Hitler's murderous career, the film traces his rise to power, his ultimate demise, and the subsequent nuremberg trials that publicized the horrors of Hitler's regime. Concentration camp footage combines with chilling POW interviews to graphically create the nazi nightmare that few could hope to survive. A powerful look at the third reich adn the horrifying fate of its enemies.
An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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