Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988
Hei tai yang 731 (original title)
1h 45min | Drama, History, Horror | 1 December 1988 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2, where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly bacterial-plagues.

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Reunion 1989

Reunion 1989

Reunion 1989

Reunion 1989
PG-13 | 1h 50min | Drama, History | 6 July 1990 (UK)

Storyline:

Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don’t realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as anti-semitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals with that era, the film flashes to the present and the Jewish man now returns to his boyhood home and seeks his old friend with some surprises.

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Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010
José Martí: El ojo del canario (original title)
1h 45min | Drama, History | 8 March 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

The story of José Martí’s (Cuba’s National Hero) youth.

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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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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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