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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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The Death of Stalin | Iannucci, Armando | 2017 | United Kingdom |
In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses, unexpectedly, of a brain haemorrhage. As a result, when someone discovers his body the following morning, a... |
Thank You for Your Service | Hall, Jason | 2017 | United States |
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq in 2007 struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield. [IMBD] |
At the End of a Gun: Women and War | Marlow, Emily | 2017 | Oley, Pennsylvania |
Druki Martenstyne's son Jason died in September 1995. Druki's family fell victim to the bloody civil war between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces that has been tearing the island of Sri Lanka apart for the last 17 years. But she'... |
Les gardiennes / The Guardians | Beauvois, Xavier | 2017 | Switzerland, France, Belgium |
An affecting human drama of love, loss, and resilience unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men, including... |
The Vietnam War (film) | Ken Burns | 2017 | United States |
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part TV series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and... |
Mercy Street | Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | 2016 | United States |
This television series, set in the early years of the Civil War, follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the war - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. |
Underground | Green, Misha | 2016 | United States |
Underground centers on a group of slaves planning a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation in the years before the American Civil War. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground... |
Rebellion | Louhimies, Aku | 2016 | Ireland |
This televised miniseries explores the emergence of Irish nationalism during World War I. Friendships and relationships disintegrate as war disrupts society. In 1916 Irish rebels lead an insurrection, known as Easter Rising, the most successful... |
Free State of Jones | Ross, Gary | 2016 | United States |
Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war film inspired by the life of Newton Knight (1829-1922), an American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist in Mississippi. Knight was, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a... |
The Cow Farm | Khudr, Ali Sheikh | 2016 | Egypt, Syria, Turkey |
Hassan, a cow farmer and the documentary filmmaker's cousin, puts a human face on the Syrian Civil War. In the remote outskirts of Salamiyah, Hassan tends to his cows, preferring them to other people. While his family supports the opposition, he... |
Gernika / Guernica | Serra, Koldo | 2016 | Spain, United States |
This film explores the impact of censorship and repression during the Spanish Civil War. An American reporter and local censor fight to lift restrictions on the press that suppress the impact of the war on civilians as well as Basque resistance.... |