'Sand Castle' volgt een militaire eenheid die in het onveilige dorpje Baqubah (Irak) het watersysteem moet herstellen. Sommige dorpelingen zijn blij met hun komst, maar weer andere inwoners zien hun aanwezigheid als vijandig.
6 oktober, 1973. Op Israëls heiligste dag Jom Kippoer lanceren Egypte, Syrië en Jordanië een gezamenlijke verrassingsaanval op het schiereiland Sinaï en de Golanvlakte. Compleet overrompeld moet premier Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), de ‘Iron Lady' van Israël, het dreigende gevaar zien af te wenden. Terwijl ze wordt tegengewerkt door haar volledig mannelijke kabinet, is het aan Golda om deze noodsituatie de kop in te drukken, want in deze race tegen de klok staan aan beide kanten van de strijd de levens van miljoenen burgers op het spel.
De film is gebaseerd op de roman ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’en gaat over een felle invasie en bezetting van Australië door een buitenlandse mogendheid. Een groepje tieners besluit te gaan kamperen in de vrije natuur. Als ze terug naar huis keren, blijkt hun land in oorlog te zijn met een vreemde mogendheid. We volgen door de ogen van Ellie Linton (Caitlin Stasey) hoe het groepje een guerillaoorlog uitvecht met de vijand die hun stadje Wirrawee heeft ingenomen.
Yuzo en zijn verloofde Masako brengen hun zondagmiddag samen door, ze proberen een leuke tijd te hebben met maar 35 Yen. Ze spelen het klaar om vele kleine avonturen door te maken, speciaal omdat Masako's optimisme en vertrouwen in haar dromen het voor elkaar krijgt om Yuzo's realistische wanhoop te verlichten.
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.
In 1921 arriveert de Britse Lord Athleigh met zijn dochter Helen in Dublin om vredesbesprekingen te voeren. Omdat de gezochte Ierse rebellenleider Dennis Riordan niet publiekelijk wordt erkend, kan hij zich vrij bewegen en redt hij de Athleighs van een moordaanslag door een radicale factie. Dennis en Helen ontmoeten elkaar weer en Helen, zich niet bewust van zijn positie, wordt verliefd op hem. Wanneer Dennis later zijn identiteit toegeeft, moet Helen een noodlottige beslissing nemen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kukutza III was a gaztetxe (self-managed social centre) in the neighbourhood of Rekalde, Bilbao. It was occupied in 1998, and it was evicted by the police in 2011. The documentary shows some activities that were hosted by the gaztetxe.
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.
Louka, whose parents were killed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, persuades a beautiful smuggler to take him over the border to visit his village, where a magical experience awaits them.
In 2009, a group of military enthusiasts led by the commander France (Gojmir Lešnjak - Gojc) decides to occupy Trieste. The group that stages battles performs it at a completely fictional location. However, this hobby is not to the liking of France's wife Marija (Silva Čušin) and his daughter Mateja (Anja Drnovšek). The daughter as a representative of the young generation has no understanding of her father's enthusiasm for partisans, battles and Tito. France is also confronted by the Slovenian police led by the commander Brane (Dario Varga) as Brane forbids France to stage any more battles ... Will the young generation accept our history and will Trieste be ours?
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)
The film documents Palestinian everyday's life under Isreali occupation in East Jerusalem. It uncovers Isreals policy of judaizing the city in order to gain Jewish majority by driving out Palestinian people from the city. The documentary includes interviews with Palestinian as well as Isreali political leaders, political analysts and human right activists.