Under det 28:e århundradet, bildar Valerian och Laureline ett team specialagenter med ansvar att behålla ordningen i universums mänskliga territorium. På order från försvarsministern ger sig de två ut på ett uppdrag till den makalösa staden Alpha – en ständigt växande metropol där varelser från hela universum i hundratals år har förenats för att dela kunskap, intelligens och kultur med varandra. I kärnan av Alpha finns ett mysterium, en mörk kraft som hotar den fredliga tillvaron i de tusen planeternas stad, och Valerian och Laureline måste göra allt för att identifiera det förgörande hotet och inte bara skydda Alpha, utan även garantera universums framtid.
Krypskytten Thomas Beckett är ett av USA:s dödligaste vapen. En lönnmördare som träffar måltavlan med iskall precision och sedan försvinner lika obemärkt som han kom. Men denna gång är hans största fiende inte målet i kikarsiktet utan hans uppdragsgivare.
In a quicksand surrounded town called Makka, rumors spread of a legendary robber named Gasback is after the town. To protect it, Mayor Kepler has hired bounty hunters. These hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of getting the bounty. Vash the Stampede is in town, along with Meryl and Milly, along with the female bounty hunter Amelia and Nicholas D. Wolfwood.
En fredfull främmande planet möter sin utplåning när de hemlösa överlevarna på jorden siktar in sig på Terra. Mala en ung rebellisk terriansk tonåring försöker göra allt för att stoppa detta.
Våren 1914 kämpar den unga, viljestarka och självständiga Vera Brittain för att bli antagen för studier i Oxford, något som hon med knapp nöd fått samtycke till av sina konservativa föräldrar. Hon inspireras av sin bror och framförallt av den karismatiske Roland Leighton, en man som delar hennes dröm om att bli författare. Men Veras drömmar grusas när kriget bryter ut och en hel generation unga engelska män tar värvning för att tjäna under fosterlandets fana. Vera avbryter sina studier för att tjänstgöra som sköterska på de blodiga slagfälten och inleder ett passionerat förhållande med Roland. Det är en kärlek lika stor som kriget.
När en udda pacifistisk tonåring hittar en pistol upptäcker hans dess makt och lockelse.
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Sonen till en rik sydstatsfamilj kastas ut för att han är pacifist. Han får jobb på en flodbåt som sångare. Efter att ha hamnat i bråk med en skurk, som av misstag skjuter sig själv, blir han känd som ”Den sjungande mördaren”. Baserad på Booth Tarkingtons roman "Magnolia".
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.
Debt-ridden pacifist Richard Fyre is propositioned to return to his abandoned mercenary ways by flamboyant zealot Priest to eliminate his international competition in exchange for a clean slate. Standing at a crossroads, he must overcome his fears of becoming the monster he once was to the rightful man he needs to be now before his indecision has dire repercussions for his family.
In 1919, in a small town under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. Outside, his mangy dog barks night and day. Not far off in the countryside, an extraordinarily intelligent young woman works the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is coming to sort out this case of which it is better not to speak.
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.
Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.
Documentary about the work of Albert Hahn.