Andy Marlow est un ex-agent secret britannique, aujourd’hui mercenaire en mission aux Balkans. Suite à un coup d’état militaire mené par l’ex-commandant en chef de l’armée croate, criminel de guerre recherché, le premier ministre serbe est assassiné et l’ambassadeur américain en poste dans cette région est kidnappé. Les soldats des nations unies n’étant pas habilités à intervenir dans ce conflit, une unité d’élite de mercenaires est alors envoyée sur place comme ultime recours.
During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia many soldiers were convinced to kill fellow citizens including friends and relatives in the name of patriotism. The Kolaborator follows the story of Goran, 24, a promising young soccer player who is forced to become a soldier. Goran goes from being a talented athlete to an executioner virtually overnight. Following orders, Goran lines up civilians, shoots them and drags them into mass graves. Justifying his role as a protector of his people, Goran becomes increasingly detached from the task until his soccer coach and life-long friend, Asim, is led in front of him. As a familiar face stands defeated before him, Goran must reconsider his actions and choose between his own life and that of his dear friend.
Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film describes not only what happened before, during and since World War I, but also takes a direct look at the genocide denial maintained by Turkey to the present day.
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.
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.
Stolen Kosovo is a Czech language documentary by director Václav Dvořák (b. 1948), about the Serbian–Albanian conflict in Kosovo. The documentary describes the situation, first in a short overview of the history of the area, followed by the 1990s conflicts and bombing of Serbia by NATO forces in 1999 and ending with the situation after the Kosovo War. The documentary focuses on the 1990s in the time of Slobodan Milošević's rule as well as on numerous interviews of Serbian civilians and, less, of Albanian insurgents against the Milošević regime.
Depth Two, qui réunit des témoignages oraux et des images des endroits où les crimes ont eu lieu il y a 17 ans, est un thriller documentaire sur une fosse commune de la banlieue de Belgrade. Pour faire la lumière sur les faits et donner une voix aux disparus dont la mort a été ainsi enfouie dans le silence, le film s'adresse aux sensations, à l'imagination et aux émotions du spectateur à travers une approche hypnotique et méditative.
In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.
In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their killers disposed of the bodies by throwing them out of helicopters, or burying them in acid-filled wells. Thousands were murdered/disappeared by paramilitary forces—such as Jitem and Hizbul-Kontra—that were financed and supported by the state, though they have always stuck to the line: “We didn’t do it.” The documentary looks at the case of seven people, including four children, who were disappeared from the town of Kerboran [Dargeçit] in 1995, and tells the story of their families’ tireless search for their bones
1915 : l'empire ottoman est plongé dans la Grande Guerre : elle entraînera sa chute. Dans ce contexte, plus d'un million d'Arméniens sont massacrés par les Turcs. En Turquie, l'évocation du génocide a toujours été refusée, l'emploi du mot " génocide " interdit. Pourtant, c'est au sein même de la société turque que des voix s'élèvent aujourd'hui : elles disent l'impérieuse nécessité de la vérité. Le film va à la rencontre de deux personnages, un Turc et une Arménienne de Turquie. Hasan Cemal, journaliste et intellectuel, est le petit-fils de Cemal Pacha, l'un des trois planificateurs du génocide. Son cheminement l'a amené à se rebeller contre l'histoire officielle. Fethiye Cetin, avocate et militante des droits de l'homme, s'est découvert à l'âge adulte la petite-fille d'une rescapée du génocide adoptée par une famille turque. Elle oeuvre pour que la Turquie retrouve la mémoire. A travers eux, ce film mêle grande et petite histoire, entre Histoire et mémoire.
Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.