What was Finlandization? What did lying to oneself do to a nation? How low did Finland grovel in the mud and what was all that was necessary? Or was it a success story, because independence was preserved? The series takes us from the end of the World War to the 1990s. It focuses on the 1970s, with its 'Taistoists' and its liturgies of friendship, as well as on the role played by Finnish Broadcasting Company and other media in the Finlandization process.
The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.
Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.
The story of how the Battleship was used and not used as the ultimate weapon of war during its day up to its demise.
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
Just after the second world war, an English girl from a sheltered background, Jennifer Morton, falls in love with Czech migrant Carl Zlinter. But Carl is not all that he seems and even Jennifer is not privy to his dark secret.
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Viceroy of India shortly after the Second World War in the days leading up to Indian independence.
Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros. Television for ABC. The show was set in the fictional city of River Run, Ohio in 1945, 1946, and 1947. The show's theme song, "Accentuate the Positive", was written by Johnny Mercer and performed by Jack Sheldon.
Forty-two episodes were broadcast in the United States over two seasons from 1991 to 1993. TV Guide, Abigail Van Buren, and fans showed determination in getting ABC to continue the show for a third season before it was cancelled.
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis is forced to bury his feelings.
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
Em 1945, na Suíça, Klara e Johann querem casar-se, agora que a guerra acabou e há paz na Europa. Enquanto Klara cuida de jovens judeus num campo de refugiados e os ajuda na busca de sobreviventes da família, Johann tem grandes planos para a fábrica do sogro e espera salvar e modernizar a bem estabelecida, mas problemática, empresa têxtil.
Ao voltar do serviço militar, Egon, irmão de Johann, dá os primeiros passos no gabinete do procurador-geral. A sua missão é apanhar nazis fugitivos. Mas os três depressa percebem que a fachada de paz é comprada com o sangue das vítimas da guerra e um sistema que prontamente fecha os olhos aos criminosos nazis por uma questão de lucro.
Após a Segunda Guerra mundial, 11 juízes dos países aliados são encarregados de decidir o destino dos criminosos de guerra japoneses num tenso julgamento internacional.
Paris, 1947, o estilista Paul Sabine recebe uma parceria ímpar para o lançamento de sua casa de alta costura. Não pode aceitar esta pesada responsabilidade sem a ajuda de seu irmão Claude, que leva uma existência dissoluta e que convém permanecer na sombra. Claude é de fato o verdadeiro gênio da Maison Paul Sabine. Este segredo que deve ser guardado a todo custo é apenas um dos muitos perigos que ameaçam o sucesso da oficina e que prometem perturbar a vida da família Sabine e dos empregados da casa.
An excellent narration of oil industry since early days to 20th century and up to today. How oil changed the world and shaped our modern world today.