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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Ici on noie les Algériens: 17 Octobre 1961 / Here We Drown Algerians: October 17th, 1961 | Adi, Yasmina | 2011 | France |
On the call of the revolutionary National Liberation Front (FLN), thousands of Algerians marched in Paris, on October 17, 1961, to protest France's war effort in Algeria, despite the curfew imposed by the government. The police responded with... |
Saïgon, l'été de nos 20 ans | Venault, Philippe | 2011 | France |
In 1949, three 20-year-old childhood friends left their native village of Charente-Maritime for Indochina. As they discover love, they find themselves caught up in the turmoil of the Indochina war. |
Nos résistances / 15 Lads | Cogitore, Romain | 2011 | France |
Summer 1944, Racine, a nineteen year old first-aid worker, is called upon to help a wounded fighter in a remote camp of the French resistance. But when he gets there he discovers a wild and disorderly bunch of young men. Between love, trials, and... |
Les hommes libres / Free Men | Ferroukhi, Ismaël | 2011 | France |
A fictionalized account of Algerian involvement in the French Resistance during World War II, Free Men follows Younes as he transitions from Paris' underground black market to the underground network helping Jews escape persecution. To... |
La mer à l'aube / Calm at Sea | Schöndorff, Volker | 2011 | United States |
Several different stories are told. The story of the Communist party attacks on German goals. The story of the collaboration of Pétain, of French gendarmerie and the prefecture. The story of the famous German writer Ernst Jünger in Paris. But for... |
Quand la Guerre sera Loin | Schatzky, Olivier | 2011 | France |
A young man reconstructs his dreams after the tragedy of World War I. Louis Midavaine's hopes of becoming an artist and establishing life with the woman he loves fall to the horrors of war. While recovering from injury, he learns how to laquer... |
Jīnlíng shísān chāi / The Flowers of War | Zhang, Yimou | 2011 | China |
Director Zhang Yimou explores the theme of sacrifice in this film about the Rape of Nanking during the Sino-Japanese War. American John Miller assumes the identity of a Catholic priest to shelter young school girls from the violence outside the... |
Without Men | Tagliavini, Gabriela | 2011 | United States |
The women of a remote Latin American town are forced to pick up the pieces and remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas. |
Al Bier / The Well | Habash, Ahmad | 2011 | Palestinian Territory |
During the 1948 war in Palestine and just one day after a massacre which shocked the world, an old man encounters a young man and a boy running for their lives. The three Palestinians share the common interest of leaving their homeland for a... |
Black Gold | Amata, Jeta | 2011 | Nigeria |
One local Niger Delta community's struggle against their own government and a multi-national oil corporation who has plundered their land and destroyed the environment. The film was reissued in 2012 with the title, Black November, with... |
The Thing That Happened | Walton, Andrew | 2011 | United States |
Both a short documentary and a call to action, The Thing That Happened explores the effects of the Ugandan Civil War on children. Hope North Secondary and Vocational School in northern Uganda serves as a school for refugee children.... |
El páramo / The Squad | Marquez, Jaime Osorio | 2011 | Colombia |
During the ongoing conflict in Colombia, a military commando unit experiences new forms of horror. Sent to investigate a non-communicative military base in the mountains, the unit finds no evidence of guerilla attacks. Instead, they find a bound... |
X-Men: First Class | Vaughn, Matthew | 2011 | United States |
The famed comic book series The X-Men finds its origin story in the global politics of the Cold War. In 1944, in Poland, the boy Erik Lehnsherr unleashes his magnetic power when his mother is sent to a concentration camp. The evil Dr.... |