Κατά τη διάρκεια των τεταμένων 19 ημερών του Πολέμου του Γιομ Κιπούρ το 1973, η πρωθυπουργός του Ισραήλ Γκόλντα Μέιρ βρίσκεται αντιμέτωπη με το ενδεχόμενο πλήρους καταστροφής του Ισραήλ. Πρέπει να περιηγηθεί στις συντριπτικές πιθανότητες, ένα σκεπτικιστικό υπουργικό συμβούλιο και μια περίπλοκη σχέση με τον υπουργό Εξωτερικών των ΗΠΑ, Χένρι Κίσινγκερ, απέναντι σε εκατομμύρια ζωές. Η σκληρή ηγεσία και η συμπόνια της θα αποφάσιζαν τελικά τη μοίρα του έθνους της και θα της άφηναν μια αμφιλεγόμενη κληρονομιά σε όλο τον κόσμο.
Ιράκ, 2003, πρώτες ημέρες για μια ομάδα αμερικανών στρατιωτών στον πόλεμο του κόλπου. Γινόμενος μάρτυρας της έξαψης και του τρόμου του πολέμου, ο άπειρος στρατιώτης Ματ Οκρ, μαζί με τους συμπολεμιστές του, τοποθετείται στα περίχωρα της Μπακούμπα με αποστολή να επισκευάσουν μια αντλία νερού που έχει καταστραφεί από τις αμερικανικές βόμβες. Αλλά όπως ο Οκρ ανακαλύπτει προσπαθώντας να κερδίσει τις καρδιές των ντόπιων, η ατμόσφαιρα είναι γεμάτη θυμό και προμηνύεται κίνδυνος. Εκεί, μέσα στους δρόμους, τις πλατείες και τα σχολεία, θα ανακαλύψει το αληθινό κόστος του πολέμου.
Επτά Αυστραλοί φίλοι από μια μικρή πόλη ξεκινούν για διακοπές σε κάμπινγκ. Κατά τη διάρκεια του ταξιδιού τους, βλέπουν στρατιωτικά αεροσκάφη να πετούν από πάνω τους. Αυτό που δεν ήξεραν ήταν ότι είχε γίνει εισβολή στην χώρα τους. Επιστρέφοντας στο σπίτι, ανακαλύπτουν ότι βρίσκονται σε πόλεμο. Χωρίς κάποια εκπαίδευση, συγκροτούν ομάδες για να πολεμήσουν τον εχθρό.
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his realistic despair.
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembrances, archival newsreel footage and photographs.
Ένας ξυλουργός από την Κύπρο καταφέρνει με τη βοήθεια μιας αλλόκοτης κοπέλας να περάσει κρυφά την πράσινη γραμμή και να επισκεφθεί τον τόπο όπου γεννήθηκε στα Κατεχόμενα. Κατά τη διάρκεια του ταξιδιού θα ερωτευθούν και θα δουν υπό διαφορετικό πρίσμα τις ζωές τους.
Big Rig (2008) is a documentary film by Doug Pray about long-haul truck drivers. The film consists of a series of interviews with different drivers, focusing on both their personal life stories and also the life and culture of truck drivers in the United States.
Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
Documentary about the struggle of the people of Jeju Island, South Korea. Set in the context of the U.S. presence in Korea after World War II, the film reveals horrible atrocities at the hands of the U.S. Military Government of Korea.
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
3 CM LESS (the title comes from projections that the Palestinian children of today will grow up on average three centimeters shorter than their parents, thanks to the deprivations of occupation) is a complex, highly personal look at the impact decades of war has wreaked on families and friendships.
In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the Chinese resistance group. On her way to freedom she must fight against Japanese soldiers, ninjas, a killer geisha, Nazis, and the evil General of the Japanese imperial army.
This experimental short traces the lifespan of the graffiti and murals present at the occupation of NYC’s City Hall in June and July of 2020. The encampment formed to demand the abolishment of the NYPD and the reallocation of its resources to housing, education, and other social programs.
On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, the start of a battle that was to last 12 weeks and claim the lives of some 240,000 people. This film depicts the Battle through the eyes of Japanese and American soldiers who fought each other on the same battlefield, along with Okinawa civilians who were swept up in the fighting. The film also depicts the history of discrimination and oppression forced upon Okinawa by the American and Japanese governments. Carrying up to the current controversy over the construction of a new base at Henoko, the film explores the root causes of the widespread disillusionment and anger expressed by many Okinawans. This ambitious documentary was directed by the American John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. Okinawa: The Afterburn is a heartfelt plea for peace and an expression of deep respect for the unyielding spirit of the Okinawa people.
The year is 1658 and the King of Sweden has seized large parts of Denmark. A tenant farmer and his family on Falster are forced to look on while enemy soldiers loot and wreck their home. Only the wounded and febrile soldier Lasse Månsson does not take part in the atrocities, and when the regiment moves on, he stays in the care of the farmer. Soon, Lasse falls in love with Anna, the farmer’s daughter, and they plan a life together. But can love blossom in such dark times? (stumfilm.dk)