Halla, la cinquantaine, déclare la guerre à l’industrie locale de l’aluminium, qui défigure son pays. Elle prend tous les risques pour protéger les Hautes Terres d’Islande… Mais la situation pourrait changer avec l’arrivée inattendue d’une petite orpheline dans sa vie…

Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war widow who wants to become an officer, farm girl Stormy Hart wants to become involved in motor transport, and Lorna Travis seeks to win the approval of her father, a major general, who has very chauvinist views on the role of women in the military. Intensive training and guidance prepares the three to make a contribution to the success of the upcoming war games conducted by General Travis and validate the value of the WACS to the war effort.

Made for an American audience, this is edited, narrated and written by three women, with no director credited.

How women were used as propaganda in WWII and their broader contribution.

Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine joins the underground resistance movement and strikes the Nazis from within...by joining the infamous Gestapo.

Ce film retracera la vie des femmes face aux tourments de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Il sera entièrement constitué d’archives, découvertes dans les cinémathèques du monde entier. Les images seront restaurées et colorisées. Les archives seront sonorisées. Le récit sera articulé autour de plusieurs figures qui ont marqué l’histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Des journaux de guerre et des correspondances permettront d’approcher l’intimité de ces femmes en proie aux douleurs et aux violences de ce conflit. Ces paroles de femmes seront soutenues par les archives photographiques personnelles et inédites des familles. Le film donnera une vision globale de la situation des femmes pendant cette période et les destinées incroyables qu’elles ont subies dans l’horreur de la guerre. ...

A documentary film, which focuses on the subject of women’s movement in the Philippines. Myth and legend overlap with history and politics as the women’s struggle is laid to bear in the individual stories and achievements of those featured in the film. The fragmented mosaic of voices and scenes allow for a plurality of views and opinions to account for the multifaceted and complex nature of Filipinas. From poetry to dance, politics to poetry – women chart their own lives in the auspicious event of change happening with the ascent of a woman to the country’s pinnacle of power.

Retracez les parcours croisés de femmes exceptionnelles entraînées dans la Première Guerre mondiale et écoutez leurs récits de bravoure sur les lignes de front de l'histoire.

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, her adoptive father dies, and at the time of his death, she learns that her real father was a man of high rank.

A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.

Ip-sae (Kim Se-in) is a caregiver with a body so full and voluptuous her clothes might burst off of her any time. All the men in her hospital ward wish dearly to be touched and cared by her. But all she has eyes for is her husband Cheon-dong (Jo Min-joon). However, her husband becomes sexually handicapped due to an accident even before they get to spend their first night together. Ip-sae tells her husband, "My love for you is eternal although we may not have physical bonding" but Cheon-dong doesn't believe in love that can't be proven physically and decides to kill her... "I won't let you go on your own. Life without you is meaningless to me." Se-ip decides to die with Cheon-dong and they leave on a suicide trip together. As if they were destined, Ip-sae meets Ha-kyoon (Ahn Sang-hoi) and becomes curious about the body of a man. She spends a night with Ha-kyoon and realizes there is another meaning to love. She breaks up with Cheon-dong and he feels betrayed.

When war came to their home, thousands of Ukrainian women took it upon themselves to become soldiers and lay their lives on the line for peace and freedom in their country. This feature documentary follows three of those women and the lives they never expected to lead.

Pionnières du reportage de guerre, Lee Miller, Martha Gellhorn et Margaret Bourke-White ont dû batailler pour imposer leur présence sur le front. Entrelaçant des extraits de leurs articles, lettres et notes personnelles avec leurs propres clichés et des images rares tournées par les cameramen alliés, ce documentaire raconte le second conflit mondial à travers leur expérience.

Sous la France occupée, le docteur Leproux, maire du village, est un homme bon qui déteste la guerre. Il est ami avec le major allemand qui travaille à l'hôpital, mais il héberge en même temps un parachutiste anglais qui a été abattu.

Après avoir été enrôlée dans l'armée par erreur, Nicoletta profite de l'occasion pour surveiller son petit ami volage tandis que les aventures s'accumulent à la caserne.

Murat is a charismatic political prisoner in Malatya. He is well respected by both inmates and prison officers. There he meets two women: Tozey, a famous prostitute, and Hanim, a defenseless woman accused of murdering her husband.

Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spreads the seed of the victorious side, an outrageous method that is useful to exterminate the defeated side by other means. This use of women, both their bodies and their minds, as a battleground, was crucial for international criminal tribunals to begin to judge rape as a crime against humanity.

Action-war from Taiwan.

Why is it that stories of sexual violence against women have never been part of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War? Why, when those stories have been such an integral part of every other war – World War One, World War Two and even the later Bosnian War, are these stories missing from the Irish Revolution? For years, Ireland has been seen as being exceptional in that these acts didn’t occur here. But was Ireland really so special? Was the nature of war here so very different from war everywhere else? And did our men really behave so well? This documentary argues that the answer is no.

Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to the family's severe financial hardships. The writer and the woman then agree to live as husband and wife until the war ends. The woman doesn't feel sexual pleasures due to her past, while the man lusts for the woman's body. Meanwhile, Ohira (Jun Murakami) fought for Japan in China. He participated in unconscionable acts against civilians in the name of war. He returns to Japan with only one arm. Ohira then begins to prey on innocent women.