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.
The defeated remnants of vile Ukrainian nationalists, headed by the leader of the Ukrainian liberation movement, Symon Petliura, cannot accept their historical fate and are plotting an insurrection against the Soviet regime in Ukraine. There is nothing Petliura and his cohorts would not do to win back control over Ukraine, including selling it to the highest bidder, in this case, the Polish dictator Jozef Pilsudski. A group of plotters are coordinating an insurrection in Kyiv with an attack from Poland headed by Petliura’s general Yurko Tiutiunnyk. Predictably, the invincible Red Army defeats the nationalist plotters and proves that the Soviet borders are impregnable.
Frustrated by the liberal left and what he deems the destruction of the country he risked his life for, reclusive veteran Quint North (Schneider) is ordered by the court to keep his distance from the local high school with the American flag on the back of his El Camino or face a fine and jail time. In an ultimate exhibition of patriotism, he sets forth a series of events that just may get him killed in his own front yard.
A biography of Indian politician Gummadi Narsaiah, who was a leading member of the Communist Party of India New Democracy.
The victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro in the 2018 brazilian general election raised a series of doubts in the minds of many Brazilians: Where did he come from? How did he manage to gain so many followers in such a short time? Why were the media and art class so afraid of his candidacy? And how did he win the 2018 elections?
The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state power, set against the Great Purge of the 1930s and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
As per tradition, young man shaves his head after death, but whose death is he mourning about?