1944年6月6日(俗稱的D日)，盟軍發動入侵，大軍在槍林彈雨中登陸奧馬哈海灘，企圖拯救歐洲數以萬計身陷戰火塗炭的生靈，有一支由約翰米勒領軍的八人被派深入德軍敵區，只為執行一個任務：「搶救雷恩大兵」。雷恩的三位兄弟相繼戰死沙場，華府為了不讓其母再受喪子之痛，於是決心派員深入敵區將僅存的兒子安全救出戰區，面對這個大海撈針成功率幾乎微乎其微的任務，任務小組中的成員心中都有一個質疑：「為什麼是八個人冒著生命危險只為救一個人？」每個人都在這場殘酷卻真實的戰爭中找尋一個合理的答案。一場邁向勝利之路的光榮之役會發生什麼樣不可知的變數呢...？
In this tragic story that has an unrealized potential to tug at the emotions, a woman in mourning for her two sons lost in World War I is the only one in her village determined to financially support a war memorial. The village poor have too little money, and the richer are tight-fisted. She has given a whole 15 years of savings -- yet the good priest, for whom she works as a maid, is not enthusiastic about her action because he is worried that the memorial will not remind the villagers of past horrors and suffering but disguise the human cost of war in rhetoric. As the memorial's advocates begin to sustain the day, flashbacks show how the woman's youngest son shot his captain, deserted the army, and came to die of fever while in his mother's care. The priest helped her as much as possible, yet he feels compelled to tell the authorities that her son was a deserter.
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to the completed memorial is also shown.
In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.
Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.
The war memorials of 1914-1918 have become so familiar that we no longer see them. They've become an invisible museum, blending into the landscape of France. Then, one fine day, a sculpture catches our eye. Another History appears, perhaps the most gigantic artistic project since the cathedrals...
Part of a travelogue series, this films visits to Derry, the Giant’s Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede, Mount Stewart and Belfast.
Stories of injury, fear, humour and falling in love from soldiers caught up in conflicts from World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Discover the people behind the new sculptures in Greensborough War Memorial Park.
The unveiling and dedication ceremony of the Calgary Soldiers' Memorial.
Images of the 911 attack on the Twin Towers act as a reminder for a character in recalling his lost relationship with a man he loved in this animated ode to building memorials - both physical and emotional - to those we have lost.
It's 1982, and Argentina and Great Britain are at war over a tiny patch of land known as the Falkland Islands. Told from the rarely explored Argentinean viewpoint, this is the story of the Falklands War through the eyes of eight former soldiers and sailors who fought to defend their country's claim to the inhospitable islands, facing off against a massive British force sent to retake them.