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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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World on Fire | Andy Wilson | 2019 | United Kingdom |
This series is an emotionally gripping, intense World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries as they grapple with the effects of the war on their every-day lives. Set in Britain, Poland, France,... |
12 Strong | Fuglsig, Nicolai | 2018 | United States |
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, a unit of the U.S. Special Forces and CIA paramilitary officers travel to Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The Americans align with a local warlord on their march, by horseback, toward Mazar-i-... |
Da hong zha / Air Strike | Feng, Xiao | 2018 | China |
This Chinese action war drama film directed by Xiao Feng about the massive Japanese bombing of the Chinese city Chongqing, capital of General Chiang Kai-shek's provisional government, from February 1938 to August 1943, tells the story of five ... |
HHhH / The Man with the Iron Heart | Jimenez, Cedric | 2018 | France, Belgium |
1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, are sent to Prague to... |
Women Against ISIS | Bourgaux, Pascale | 2018 | USA |
In the war against the Islamic State, the only movement combating the jihadists with any effectiveness on the ground is the Kurdish resistance army. This movement is made up of both men and women fighters forcing back the jihadists and reclaiming... |
Dunkirk | Nolan, Christopher | 2017 | United States, United Kingdom |
This tense drama weaves together three narratives critical to the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in the early days of World War II. After the German military controlled the sea, land, and air off of northern France, over 300,000 British await... |
First They Killed My Father | Jolie, Angelina | 2017 | United States |
Based on the memoir by Loung Ung, this film by director Angelina Jolie explores the impact of the Cambodian genocide (from April 1975 to January 1973) on children after the Cambodian Civil War (... |
Sand Castle | Coimbra, Fernando | 2017 | United States |
A young American soldier finds a new purpose during the Iraq War. Pvt. Matt Ocre, who enlisted in the U.S. Army before 9/11 as a way to pay for college, becomes disillusioned with war. He is tasked with repairing and defending a water pump... |
Journey's End | Dibb, Saul | 2017 | United Kingdom |
This latest version of the 1928 R. C. Sherriff play focuses on the men in the trenches during World War I. In 1918 in France, a group of war-weary British soldiers await a German attack. The officers and enlisted men try to maintain a semblance... |