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- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsAnthony AndrewsVladimir IlinElena MayorovaA political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia.Movie is available as a czech release with english and russian dialogue , however no english subtitles
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsJohn SavageWillie NelsonFrancesca AnnisVictor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated with his being sent to the Gulag for many years. He was in the Soviet Union, according to the film, for a total of 45 years.
- StarsAleksey SerebryakovYuriy StepanovVladimir PriezzhevDrama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.
- StarsChulpan KhamatovaMariya MironovaAleksandr BaluevThe Fall of the Great Russian Empire is the main storyline of this 10 episode mini series, however, every episode has a separate detective story of its own.The one i would really like to get-check youtube for portions of the series
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsMichele PlacidoTatyana DogilevaMikhail ZhigalovThe events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.
- DirectorKai WesselStarsMaria FurtwänglerJean-Yves BertelootTonio ArangoIn 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia, like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, believed that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsToshirô MifuneSô YamamuraMakoto SatôIn 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska, Alaska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsHiroshi FujiokaTarô ShigakiNaoko ÔtaniEpic dramatization of the WWII memoirs of Saburô Sakai, the famous ace pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- DirectorAziz M. OsmanStarsHairie OthmanUmie AidaFaizal HusseinThis film is about a Malaysian soldier, Lieutenant Adnan Saidi, who fought bravely against the Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2.
- StarsHelen MorseBryan BrownGordon JacksonSet against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsGena RowlandsAnnabeth GishChloe WebbIn 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. This is the story of a group of women who band together to face brutal treatment, harsh conditions, and ruthless captors to survive their internment.
- StarsNathaniel ParkerChristopher MorsleyJohn BachThe true and tragic story of Operation Rimau, one of the most daring raids of WW2. In September 1944 Ivan Lyon and 22 Australian and British troops attempted to blow up Japanese ships in Singapore. Just 10 miles away from the target they are discovered and so begin a long and desperate bid to escape to Australia. The series shows how after the war it is revealled that 13 men were killed during the pursuit and that the remaining 10 were murdered by the Japanese in a war crime. Tragically this was covered up and their killers were never charged while the men themselves never received any honours for their heroism.
- StarsPaul RhysJohn BachJohn HargreavesIn 1943 a group of Australian and British Commandos used a captured Japanese fishing boat to sail from Australia to Singapore to attack Japanese shipping in Singapore harbour. Using canoes the team paddled through the defences to place Limpet Mines on their targets. The attack was successful with seven ships being sunk or damaged.
- DirectorTheodor KotullaStarsGötz GeorgeElisabeth SchwarzKai TaschnerThe disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
- DirectorHeinz SchirkStarsDietrich MattauschGerd BöckmannFriedrich G. BeckhausAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
- DirectorErma FatimaStarsRazak AhmadUmie AidaAqashaSet in Malaya during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s, this film tells the story of a girl, Embun, who's thrown into the forefront of the struggle against the Japanese when her freedom-fighter brother, Bayu, and father are detained by the Japanese. In the midst of it all, she's also attracted to the Japanese army public relations man, Koishi, who is assigned to explain the Japanese propaganda to the Malays and win their support. Koishi also has a personal mission to fulfil in Malaya to find the Malay man who married his mother (in other words, his father) when she served as a Japanese spy prior to the occupation.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperLaraine DaySigne HassoWhen the U.S. forces withdraw from Java, ahead of the Japanese invasion, U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell coordinates the remaining wounded servicemen and leads them to safety towards the last Allied evacuation points.
- DirectorDaniel RagussisStarsChristian BerkelJuliane KöhlerWolf KahlerIn 1914, Fritz Haber is Germany's greatest chemist. His Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers have saved the world from mass starvation. But as World War I breaks out across Europe, slaughtering millions of young soldiers, the desperate German military asks Haber to invent an entirely new kind of weapon. Already having sacrificed his Jewish identity and his wife's career to achieve success, Haber's decision not only unleashes weapons of mass destruction for the first time in human history, but also threatens to destroy his family as well.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsSergey MakovetskiyMarat BasharovAndrey KraskoEvery second is precious for a Russian submarine crew, as they are stranded 72 meters below the ocean's surface.
- StarsVladislav GalkinKirill PletnyovAleksey BardukovTwo young intelligence officers headed by a tough captain are assigned various secret missions on the Nazi-occupied territories.
- DirectorVera GlagolevaStarsAleksandr BaluevMichael KhmurovFyodor KoposovMay, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to three years, and the captain Karp Nichiporuk. The young mothers were exiled to the island from the territories occupied by fascists, and their children are the children of the German occupieer. Arrival of the major upsets the casual life on the island. The major has to "clean up" the island and the nearest settlements. The military man authorizes a plan to organize a training camp in the region for saboteurs. The night of May, 9, the women ar told about the German capitulation, their hopes for forgiveness and return home become a certainty. They are even allowed to celebrate the Victory.
- StarsIris BerbenBenjamin SadlerValerie KochThe story of Alfried Krupp and his family and of the Krupp company, which has been preeminent in German industry. The family company was a key supplier of weapons and material to the Nazi regime during WWII.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsTobias MorettiMartina GedeckMoritz BleibtreuRise and fall of actor Ferdinand Marian, who takes the chance and stars in the anti-semitic movie Jud Süß (1940).
- StarsFlorian PanznerArnd KlawitterAlexander LutzFate years.
- DirectorOrlow SeunkeStarsPierre BokmaEsmée de la BretonièreChristine HakimA picture of the history of the Dutch East Indies in the period 1939-1949. Adventurer Theo Staats leaves for the Dutch East Indies for superficial reasons, but along the way he learns to see the bitter reality of colonialism.
- DirectorRaymond LeyStarsHerbert KnaupUlrich TukurAxel Milberg
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsValentinas MasalskisSteven BerkoffLiubomiras LauceviciusA man who was imprisoned by the Nazis later writes of his experience, then he is imprisoned by the Soviets, just as oppressive as the Germans.The movie is available as a promo included in a limited supply of newspapers with greek dialogue and english subtitles
- DirectorJohn HendersonStarsJim BroadbentTony HaygarthMatthew AshfordeBiopic about a real eccentric ultra-patriotic British army officer and war hero called Lt. Col. Alfred D. Wintle, who fought in both World Wars against both the enemy and his higher-ups with the same passion.Is now available on amazon.ca but at the price of $211 !!!!
- DirectorLee Joon-ikStarsSoo AeJung Jin-youngWipawee CharoenpuraIn hot pursuit of the husband that left her to fight in the Vietnam War, a woman becomes the lead singer of a traveling band that she hopes will cross paths with him again.
- DirectorHu GuanStarsHuang BoNi YanTielong ShangA Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsEtsushi ToyokawaShinobu ÔtakeNaomasa MusakaToward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led. This year's Oscar entry from Japan finds SHINDO in top form and his 49th and reportedly last film as fresh and poignant as ever.
- DirectorToke Constantin HebbelnStarsAlexander FehlingAugust DiehlRonald ZehrfeldThe dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.
- DirectorTobias LindholmStarsPilou AsbækSøren MallingDar SalimThe crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.
- DirectorOliver StorzStarsKaroline EichhornApril HailerEva MichelThis feature film is set in the small Swabian village of Nesselbühl, Germany, in April 1945, shortly before the end of the war. The roaring guns of the approaching American troops can be heard in the distance and only Anna, daughter of an innkeeper and leader of the German Girls Society (BDM), still believes that hope can be found in trusting the Führer. But then, overnight, a train arrives at the village station bringing a horror nobody is prepared for: three cattle cars of Jewish concentration camp prisoners being moved to a new camp farther away from Allied Forces. The dying prisoners stay on the tracks for three days, strangers no one wants to be responsible for. Strangely enough, life goes on as usual in Nesselbühl. Only for young Anna will nothing be as it was again.
- DirectorFriedemann FrommStarsAnna LoosJan Josef LiefersSven LehmannBerlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two become a slightly odd couple. Albert is a sworn pacifist after his experiences in the First World War. Contrary to his beliefs he agrees to act as courier for his brother Edwin, who belongs to a radical communist cell.
- DirectorAnna JusticeStarsAlice DwyerMateusz DamieckiDagmar ManzelA Polish man rescues a Jewish woman during the chaos of WWII, but they become separated until a chance encounter over 30 years later in New York reunites them.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsSylvester GrothFred DürenMatthias GüntherTeenage German soldier is falsely accused of being a war criminal and arrested in Poland of 1945.
- DirectorNiki SteinStarsUlrich TukurTim BergmannJohannes SilberschneiderThe story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
- StarsChristian RodeKurt ConradiBrigitte KarnerBased on the book by Kirst, this is the story of the investigation concerning the death of a young lieutenant at a German school for officers. The story takes place in the last year of WW2 and shows the intrigue and machinations between men and "wolves".
- DirectorOleg FominStarsOleg FominAleksandr BukharovSergey BatalovDuring the Civil War in Russia a group of White Guard officers is trying to rescue the family of the tsar Nicholas II captured by Bolsheviks. The officers face betrayal and fight a Red Army detachment sent to eliminate them. It is the Red Army commander against the head of the White Guard group. The only thing that matters is who will be the first to reach the tsar placed under arrest in Yekaterinburg...