Soldatik 2019

Soldatik 2019

Soldatik 2019

Soldatik 2019
1h 26min | Drama, War | 22 February 2019 (Russia)

Storyline:

The film is based on real events. This is a story about exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier – the hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. He lost all his relatives and got into the army. With a six-year-old boy, they started playing the soldier game in order to preserve his childhood, and he, in order to comply with this honorary title, became a real defender of the Motherland.

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Reach for Glory 1963

Reach for Glory 1962

Reach for Glory 1962

Reach for Glory 1963
1h 26min | Drama, War | April 1962 (UK)

Storyline:

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won’t end before they can fight in it. John, one of the younger members, is increasingly torn between these peer group values and his deepening homoerotic friendship with Mark, a gentle Jewish refugee whom his gang has ostracized as a sissy and a coward. Based on the novel “The Custard Boys”, by John Rae. Reminiscent of “Lord of the Flies” in depicting adolescent cruelty growing unchecked to tragic extremes.

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The Rifleman 2019

The Rifleman 2019

The Rifleman 2019

The Rifleman 2019
Dveselu putenis (original title)
1h 44min | Drama, History, War | 8 November 2019 (Latvia)

Storyline:

The love story of the sixteen-year-old Arturs gets interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time the Russian Empire permits national battalions. However, war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as the war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.

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Auschwitz 2011

Auschwitz 2011

Auschwitz 2011

Auschwitz 2011
Not Rated | 1h 13min | Drama, History, War | 10 June 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

Controversial director Uwe Boll depicts the harsh reality of the process inside one of the most infamous Nazi death camps by using brutally realistic imagery. Book-ended by documentary footage as well as interviews with German teenagers about what they know about the Holocaust, Boll effectively shows us just how depraved and sadistic life in the camp could be.

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Beau travail 1999

Beau travail 1999

Beau travail 1999

Beau travail 1999
Unrated | 1h 32min | Drama, War | 3 May 2000 (France)

Storyline:

This film focuses on ex-Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup’s mind. He feels compelled to stop him from coming to the attention of the commandant who he admires, but who ignores him. Ultimately, his jealousy leads to the destruction of both Sentain and himself.

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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 2019

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 2019

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 2019

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 2019
Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl (original title)
1h 59min | Drama, Family, History | 25 December 2019 (Germany)

Storyline:

In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.

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For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada 2012

For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada 2012

For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada 2012

For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada 2012
R | 2h 25min | Drama, History, War | 1 June 2012 (USA)

Storyline:

What price would you pay for freedom? In the exhilarating action epic FOR GREATER GLORY, an impassioned group of men and women make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and country. This film unfolds the (hidden) true story of 1920’s Cristeros War.

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