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Bela Frankl, a young Hungarian, is taken prisoner by Russia during the First World War, defects to the side of the revolution and some time later, under the pseudonym Mate Zalka, becomes a famous Soviet writer. In 1936, having arrived as a volunteer in Spain, he becomes General Lukacs, forms the 12th International Brigade of non-professional fighters and takes the first heavy battles with Franco's cadre formations...

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June 1944. Allied troops have landed in Normandy and are fighting in France. A group of seven Dutch resistance fighters is given an important mission to help the Allied advance. However, the mission goes completely wrong and while the resistance fighters regroup at their hiding place, they begin to suspect that there is a traitor in their midst.

During a young soldier's first trip to the Middle-East he becomes embroiled in the abuse of prisoners of war.

When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he's wounded in battle and taken prisoner. He manages to escape and deliver an important message to his commanding officer, but loses his life in the process. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.

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Wilfred Owen returns to the Somme against the advice of his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, determined to follow his subject 'The Pity of War' to the very end. This true story tells of a milestone in world literature, of forbidden love and ultimate sacrifice, featuring timeless figures such as Robert Graves, Robbie Ross and Charles Scott Moncrieff.

The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.

Serbia, autumn 1942, The SS has dispatched 200 men to the mountains to flush-out Commander Nikola Kalabic after receiving intelligence from a local informer of his whereabouts. The commander is accompanied by an elite unit of his Royal Mountain Corp troops.

The film is based solely on footage shot in Warsaw in 1939 by Julien Hequembourg Bryan. This American filmmaker and photographer documented life in Poland, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he arrived in Warsaw, where he shot a number of films documenting the city under siege, and is said to be the only foreign correspondent in the Polish capital at the time. Bryan also took the first colour photographs of wartime Warsaw.

The struggle of two Serbian peasants to choose between love of their families and love of their country.

Basia and her aunt live in peace far away from war efforts. One day that peace is shattered when a concentration camp prisoner, a communist activist seeks refuge in their house.

The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.

Loyal slave of the aristocratic Dabney family, Dan is overjoyed when Raoul becomes engaged to Northerner Elsie Hammond and his sister Grace becomes engaged to Elsie's brother John. When the Civil War breaks out, the heartbroken Hammonds return North and John joins the Union army. Raoul joins the Confederacy, but his vindictive overseer, Jonas Watts, becomes a Union officer. Watts takes Grace prisoner, but before he can act on his desires, John rescues her.

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