In Whithren, a line of women pass a recurring dream through multiple generations.
A dramatic psychological thriller set in 1968 rural Florida. War Cake is a coming of age story about Judith, a high school senior on the verge of graduation. Prom is coming up and Judith is happy with her friends, boyfriend, and her life. A traumatic event throws her entire future and plans into turmoil. Judith must navigate relationships with her friends and family while dealing with the betrayal from someone she loves. In a story full of suspense and drama, Judith struggles against the...
Part seven of the Why We Fight series of wartime documentaries describes the issues leading up to America's entry into the Second World War. In the year 2000, the United States Library of Congress declared this film (and the previous six documentaries in the series) as "culturally significant" and designated them for preservation in the National Film Registry.
A German Captain and a US Captain help each other survive in the desert of North Africa during WWII. A year later they meet again during combat in France.
In War Dog (1987), a Vietnam vet who wants answers about his brother Rick's death. In Commander (1988), freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over.
Underserved and ignored, undocumented immigrants with medical issues often end up in emergency rooms for care, a costly last resort in which patients can be charged thousands of dollars for little more than an aspirin. Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin ('Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer') shines a well-deserved light on Puentes de Salud, a health-care clinic serving a population that all-too-easily slips through the cracks. As it plans a larger facility to accommodate its rapidly increasing demand,...
EAGLES ATTACK AT DAWN (1970): A group of former Israeli Army officers are haunted by the torture they suffered in a Syrian prison of war camp. They commit to one last mission to free the remaining captives they left behind. The attack begins at dawn, but not all of them will come back alive... Eagles Attack at Dawn is one of the first collaborations between Israeli movie producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who would have great success in the 1980s with their company Cannon Films. Rick...
HELL IN NORMANDY (1968): The story of the men who made D-Day possible! On the eve of the invasion of Normandy, two specially-trained agents infiltrate a hidden German base. Their mission is to destroy a secret cache of Nazi flamethrowers that could decimate the Allied forces. Even with a crack team of American paratroopers running interference for them, these brave men may not escape with their lives Hell in Normandy stars Guy Madison, best known for the television series The Adventures of...
Euro War (or "Macaroni Combat") films were Italian knock-offs of more expensive Hollywood productions. Despite their meagre budgets, they were often distinguished by inventive camerawork and cinematography. Though their casts were primarily populated by Italian performers, they always featured at least one Hollywood actor, usually a fading or minor star in need of work. COMMANDOS (1968): Sgt. "Sarge" Sullivan is put in charge of a crack team of Italian-American commandos. Their mission? To...
Gold miners instigate war with the Apaches just as Civil War breaks out.
A 16-year-long civil war that began in 1977 ravaged Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, wiping out nearly 95 percent of the elephant population. Today, peace has been restored, but the surviving elephants still carry the emotional scars of war and must relearn how to trust humans. Follow a brother-and-sister team, Bob Poole and Dr. Joyce Poole, on a mission to help the traumatized elephants heal and to restore peace to a once-again-thriving wildlife sanctuary.
A powerful king and his naive younger sibling go eyeball to eyeball over the affections of a gorgeous young peasant woman. While this is happening a sinister plot is is hatched against both brothers by a power-lusting general. There's a lot of cool sword and sandal action and intrigue throughout this peplum epic, but the highlight is when the primeval gods unleash their wrath upon the ancient city of Nineveh, sending a monstrous storm to wipe it out. The scenes of walls crumbling beneath flood...
The life of one of America's greatest heroes, General Douglas MacArthur, is the subject of this Big Picture documentary, narrated by Walter Cronkite. Fighting hard for freedom and justice in a military career that spanned more than half a century, he proved himself one of the most resourceful field commanders of his era, a brilliant chief of staff and a military governor whose wisdom and fairness set new standards of diplomacy. His strategy in America's Pacific War, one of the largest and most...
During the fi nal bloody weeks of the Korean War, idealistic Private Loomis (Robert Redford) is sent to the front lines as a replacement in a battle-weary platoon. But when he learns that a reclusive fellow soldier named Endore has been sneaking behind enemy lines to kill under the cover of darkness, Loomis fears that Endore isn't just a fearless warrior...but an unpredictable, sinister predator who could prove more dangerous than the enemy!
Commemorate the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor with this collection of 24 episodes of the award-winning documentary series 'Crusade in the Pacific', produced by The March of Time. Plus the famous short film 'December 7th', directed by John Ford.
Using ancient records and recent finds, National Geographic reveals the lives of the men behind the Roman military machine that carved out and protected an empire.
War Movie is a five-part documentary series that examines not only the history of war in American cinema, but how this medium has shaped our country's perspective on conflict, foreign policy, race, masculinity and national identity.
No stones in slingshots. No skirmishes too late in the day. They're rules of war for the youngsters of two neighboring Irish villages. And here's another rule: if you spit-shake on something, you better follow through. Kids will be kids. But sometimes they, in their own fanciful ways, will be adults. "What's unique and marvelous here," Oscar-winning* Chariots of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland says, "is that it's not an adult's view of childhood at all, but a child's view of adulthood."...
No stones in slingshots. No skirmishes too late in the day. They are the rules of war for the youngsters of two neighboring Irish villages. And here's another rule: if you spit shake on something you better follow through. Kids will be kids. But sometimes they, in their own fanciful ways, will be adults. What's unique and marvelous here Oscar -winning Chariots of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland says "is that it's not an adult view of childhood at all, but a child's view of adulthood" Welland...
Yusuke Kawazu, Emi Shindo, Kathy Moran, Ralph Jesser. Its man against bugs in this cool sci-fi shocker. A plane carrying an atomic bomb is attacked by a new strain of killer bees. The bees have been created by a crazed scientist who has ideas of world domination. This colorful, seldom-scene Japanese sci-fi thriller is pretty wild. Color, scope, 16mm.
Look! Out among the stars! What are those mysterious lights? A space aurora? Asteroids? No, they're predators from Mars intent on conquering our planet. Earthlings, this means war! After invading the United States with his spacey space flick The Wild, Wild Planet, Italian director Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony Dawson) did it again with another low-budget, high-camp sci-fi blast: War of the Planets, a tale of astronauts battling invisible enemies who leave their human victims neither alive...
Duke Bradley fences off his vast land holdings setting off a range war with his arch rival, Bull Harris, who is willing to fight for free-passage. When his son, Tom, begs him to reconsider, Duke flies off the handle and throws him out of the house. Tom discovers, perhaps too late, that his father's foreman is secretly planning to steal dad's entire herd and he may be too late to save him from losing everything. After driving a chariot in the silent version of Ben-Hur, Tom Tyler began appearing...
In this dynamic and emotional presentation, Ian R. Crane links the trauma of contrived oil and food shortages with the plan to introduce GM foods, not only to maximize the profitability of a mature oil and gas industry but also to provide a source of additional taxation for the primary purpose of funding an increasing number of illegal pre-emptive wars. As the British Government signs legislation legalizing "scientific research" into far-reaching aspects of Genetic Engineering and...