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There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide to seek redress.
Father Max and Father James have been sent on a mission from Aba, Nigeria to the Scottish Highlands due to a shortage of local priests. Will their humour and Igbo songs help keep these remote communities alive?
Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.
An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...
Filmmaker Liseth Medema was raised by her father as a Jehovah's Witness. When she did not want to continue with the faith, she had to leave her parental home. In this documentary, she speaks to her father, in an attempt to get closer to each other.
A young man relates how he was raised in a country with a culture different to that of his father. During a performance in a packed theatre he discovers that all he really cares about is his father’s approval and recognition.
When past merges with present, two half brothers get a last chance to say goodbye.
Hassan's Danish life has failed. After a harsh divorce and after losing contact to his son, Hassan is now back in his native Jordan. A meeting with his son and a last chance for reconciliation is to be arranged.
Dardan, a young immigrant is spending a holiday with his family back in Kosovo. Before going back to France, he tells his cousin Ujkan about his wish to go to his father's grave.
Nadija, a twenty-year old hairdresser, meets Njegos, a member of the car-stealing ring, is visiting her aunt Spasa, a bar owner. This short encounter prompts Nadija to think about her family situation, leaving her a desire to change life.
On Thanksgiving, a family struggles to properly care for their father with Alzheimer's disease.
Drawn from the diaries and letters of noted feminists, such as women's suffrage founder Elizabeth Cady Stanton and labor organizer "Mother" Mary Jones, this unique production paints a compelling portrait of the women's liberation movement.
After actor Søren Spanning's stroke in 2014, his children document their family's adaptation over six years, navigating their evolving relationship and coping with grief until his death in 2020.
Two sons of an important Fuerteventura cattle rancher (at odds with each other) are forced to overcome a disconcerting challenge in order to collect their inheritance on the death of their father: to take the cattle to the southern tip of the island and give them to Don Oswaldo, their greatest adversary.
The film tells the story of the Russian Navy officer Vasily Boisman, who, seriously wounded after the Battle of Port Arthur, was taken prisoner by Japan. According to the laws of that time, Vasily, as an officer, had the right to return to his homeland, but he chose captivity — together with the crew of his ship, remaining faithful to the duty of the Human and the Office
An African refugee's quiet existence in a sleepy mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of a charismatic Catholic priest, whom she recognizes as the warlord who slaughtered her family.
Jamila is a victime of a porn revenge. An act that generated abrupt change of the girl's life, who under social convention, suffers popular anger and finds herself forced to flee away to finally face the unprecedented violence of her family, that is running close to the honor crime.
Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII. Nazi Governors and consultants to Hitler himself, the two are collectively responsible for thousands of deaths. But what stood out to Philippe Sands were the impressions they left on their sons. While researching the Nuremberg trials, the human rights lawyer came across two men who re-focused his studies: Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter. The men hold polar opposite views on the men who raised them.
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son.