Plot:
Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.
Tag: War
Adam Resurrected 2008 • Movie
Plot:
In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
Last Ounce of Courage 2012 • Movie
Plot:
Years after his father’s death, the son of a fallen soldier tries to reconnect with his grandfather, who is still grieving the loss of his son.
Lost Command 1966 • Movie
Plot:
French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.
King of Hearts 1967 • Movie
Plot:
During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.
Dear Elza! 2014 • Movie
Plot:
During WW2, Hungarian soldier Lombos Mihály is denied furlough and returns to battle on the Eastern Front where he is captured by the Soviets who use him as a ‘trampler’ through the German minefields and as an interpreter.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 1959 • Movie
Plot:
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
The Littlest Rebel 1935 • Movie
Plot:
Shirley Temple’s father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Shirley and “Bojangles” Robinson beg President Lincoln to intercede.
They Who Dare 1954 • Movie
Plot:
During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.
Double Target 1988 • Movie
Plot:
After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.
Beau Travail 2000 • Movie
Plot:
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
China Peacekeeping Forces 2018 • Movie
Plot:
China’s first military peace film, telling the story of current officers and men of China’s peacekeeping force in the implementation of President Xi.
An Ungentlemanly Act 1992 • TvMovie
Plot:
Royal Marines defend Government House from Argentine invaders during the events that triggered the Falklands War.
Dachau Liberation 2021 • Movie
Plot:
Interviews with those who were there and their family members. A Unique insight into the Nazi’s first Concentration Camp.
The Windermere Children 2020 • Movie
Plot:
This is the stark, moving, and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.
Mr. Klein 1976 • Movie
Plot:
In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?
Zelary 2003 • Movie
Plot:
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Timbuktu 2014 • Movie
Plot:
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives — which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith — abruptly disturbed.
Jiseul 2013 • Movie
Plot:
In 1950’s, a populace of a South Korean island rebels against police brutality. The protesters are labeled as communists and the army is dispatched. One small village will be hit especially hard that day. Based on historical events.
The Fighting Seabees 1944 • Movie
Plot:
During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
Eagles Over London 1973 • Movie
Plot:
In World War II, a German undercover unit infiltrates British lines during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940. The film revolves around their successes and failures in disrupting Royal Air Force operations during the Battle of Britain.
Parthal Pasi Theerum 1962 • Movie
Plot:
Believing his wife to be dead, a soldier with the British-Indian army marries another woman and moves on. But what happens when he discovers that his wife is actually alive?
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1971 • Movie
Plot:
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy’s 1930s.
Roadmap to Apartheid 2012 • Movie
Plot:
In this award-winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ballad of a Soldier 1960 • Movie
Plot:
Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
Vragi 2007 • Movie
Plot:
Belorussia, summer 1942. The war has moved on, far off to the east. The life of a small town where the German authorities of the region have set themselves up is getting back to “normal”. The Germans study Russian, flirt with the local girls, the women wash their clothes and feed them. They have to carry on somehow… But suddenly the teenage son of the film’s heroine decides to run away to the partisans and blows up a German train so that they could accept him. He gets caught and the Germans have to execute him in order “to teach others a lesson”. That’s the order and it can’t be disobeyed. The Germans know that this execution will bring an end to their peaceful lives. The local commandant understands this better than anyone as he is already involved in a close relationship with the boy’s mother. But he can’t ignore an order from his commanders …
Memories on Stone 2015 • Movie
Plot:
Kurdish childhood friends Hussein (37) and Alan (40) direct and produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it’s worth putting everything on the line – even their own life.