Un giovane, Chris, parte come volontario per la guerra del Vietnam, ma il suo idealismo si dovrà presto scontrare con gli orrori di quel conflitto, gli uomini trasformati in macchine da guerra e con il cinismo di molti ufficiali.
John Rabe (1882-1950) è, insieme a Marx ed Engels, il tedesco più noto in Cina. Definito dal "The New York Times "l'Oscar Schindler della Cina" Rabe, direttore della Siemens a Nanchino nel 1937, proprio mentre veniva richiamato a Berlino perché il governo aveva deciso di chiudere la fabbrica, si trovò a difendere la popolazione locale e i suoi operai dalla doppia azione del governo nazista e, soprattutto, dei giapponesi invasori.
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.
Siamo alla fine degli anni venti in una zona rurale della Cina settentrionale, dove vigono ancora usanze di stampo feudale. La giovane Nove Fiori è stata venduta in moglie a Padron Li, un vecchio lebbroso proprietario di una distilleria di grappa. La tradizione vuole che la sposa sia condotta alla casa del marito a bordo di un palanchino scortato da una banda di suonatori.
August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture over the barbarism of war.
In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.
BREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
Documentary about Japan's Unit 731 of World War II.
A reckoning of Nazi Germany’s planned execution of its own citizens with physical and mental disabilities whom they deemed useless to their society.