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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Kazakh
Description
Spanning nearly nine decades from the 1930s to the present, THE ROAD TO MOTHER is a sweeping yet personal epic that follows several generations of a Kazakh family that is determined to stay united through war, famine, collectivization, and separation. Focusing on a young man who is torn away from his mother by upheaval of war, he is forced to endure harrowing experiences from childhood into adulthood without her to protect him. Kazakhstan's official...
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer of 1969, young soldier Dalton Joiner finds out that his girlfriend Jane back home has dumped him and vows to sneak out of Vietnam during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend Mickey Wright will do anything to help his buddy out, as long as there might be a few girls along the way. In just seven days they must get to the States, change Jane's mind and make it back to the war without getting caught. But when they arrive...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A compelling anti-war film set in Afghanistan, a country that has become synonymous with conflict. It is also a story of romance and a celebration of life, hope and love. This remarkable film by one of Australia's most adventurous documentary filmmakers, Dennis O'Rourke, tells the story of Habiba and Shah who, because of the wars fought in Afghanistan over the past 25 years, have experienced immense suffering, but who have survived to show how it...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Boris Barnet, The Outskirts is Barnet's first sound film. This is the tender love story between a Russian girl Anka and a German prisoner of war given permission to work in the village. This love story is made possible because Anka's father's friend Robert Karlovish, a German taught her enough about his country. The setting is the year 1914, first in a total backwater and then, as war breaks out, at the front as well. The plot is simply...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman - a mother living through the war in Beirut - carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with - the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday Lebanese, struggling to maintain their sanity and their humanity...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: Make love, not war to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results - until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy), the duo improbably falls in love. Amid...
8) Without Love
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a married couple who believe they have found the secret to wedded bliss: They share common passions but have decided to live together WITHOUT LOVE. Washington, D.C. World War II. Pat Jamieson (Tracy--Father of the Bride, Inherit the Wind) and Jamie Rowan (Hepburn--The African Queen, The Philadelphia Story) have both loved and lost. Independently, they have decided to forgo romance for...
9) Stop-loss
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend, Steve Shriver (Channing Tatum), who served with him in Iraq. Along with their other war buddies, Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then, against Brandon's will, the Army orders him back...
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Guernica is both a town that was leveled in a night of horror during World War II and an image, captured in paint by Pablo Picasso and on film by renegade surrealist Fernando Arrabal. The Guernica Tree is Arrabal's most unflinching and personal film. It is a testimony to the horrors of war, the absurd chaos of life turned upside down and the ache of love. The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play...
11) Wings
Pub. Date
1927.
Language
English
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman (Hollywood's first "It-girl," Clara Bow), become fighter pilots in World War I. Stunningly realistic flying sequences, all filmed without faking or processing shots, highlight this story of two airmen pals and an ambulance nurse they both love, first winner of an **Academy Award** for Best Picture. Winner of Best Picture and Best Effects, Engineering Effects at the **Academy...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A ravishing adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's legendary novel, A farewell to arms stars Gary Cooper (High noon) as Lt. Frederic Henry, a young ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI, more interested in chasing women than the enemy. When seeking cover during an air raid, he encounters Nurse Catherine Barkley (a radiant Helen Hayes), and the world shifts under his feet. They fall in love, but the war keeps wrenching them apart. These painful separations...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Missing Presumed Dead is Gerard Reed's personal journey to discover what became of Heinrich Bornkamp, a German soldier of World War One, whose wallet he discovered in a collector's shop window in Adelaide, South Australia. Gerard felt connected to past lives as the wallet revealed its secrets, telling a story of loss and love thwarted by war. Bornkamp's wallet was a link to a loss in Gerard's family as his great uncle Pat Murphy was 'missing presumed...
14) The Edge of Love
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This beautifully drawn love story explores the bohemian underworld of war-torn London and the intimate complexities of two young couples whose lives and loves become dangerously intertwined.
15) Love After War
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary that introduces viewers to catastrophically wounded veterans and their partners who candidly share how they restored emotional closeness and physical intimacy after surviving combat related injuries. With insightful commentary from experts in sexuality and disability, this film sensitizes the general public, provides hope to our heroes, and serves as an educational tool for those whom our veterans rely on for their care....
16) A Jihad for Love
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world's second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. A JIHAD DOR LOVE was filmed in 12 countries and 9 languages and comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn...
17) Love is All
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This film takes us on a journey through the twentieth century, exploring love and courtship on screen in a century of unprecedented social upheaval. From the very first kisses ever caught on film, through the disruption of war, to the birth of youth culture, gay liberation and free love, we follow courting couples flirting at tea dances, kissing in the back of the movies, shacking up and fighting for the right to love. ..This is the celluloid story...
18) First love
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. FIRST LOVE is directed by Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The War is a story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in American and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.A Letter from the Directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe drew to a close, the CBS radio correspondent Eric Sevareid was troubled....
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