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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Elles étaient en guerre: 1939-1945 | Hugues Nancy | 2015 | France |
This French documentary tells the story of the millions of European women who fought against the misery and unspeakable horror in war-torn Europe during the Second World War. It explores their humiliations and imprisonment, their persecution and... |
Battle for Sevastopol | Sergey Mokritskiy | 2015 | Russia |
Battle for Sevastopol is a biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet woman who joined the Red Army to fight the German invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The movie... |
Her War: Women Vs. ISIS | Anastasia Trofimova | 2015 | Russia |
The YPJ (Women's Protection Units) is an all-female unit of Kurdish and Arab women who are fighting ISIS in Syria. Previously unheard of until 2012, the YPJ is comprised of volunteers from towns and villages that came under threat as the terror... |
He Named Me Malala | Davis Guggenheim | 2015 | United States |
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, in 2012 for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations. |
The Imitation Game | Tyldum, Morten | 2014 | United States |
Based on a true story, this critically acclaimed film presents the story of Alan Turing's intelligence work for the British during World War II. At Bletchley Park, Turing works to decode the Enigma machine and thus German intelligence reports.... |
Die Seelen im Feuer | Egger, Urs | 2014 | Germany |
This Austrain-German television film focusses on the Bamberg witch trials of 1630-31 during the Thirty Year's War (1616-1648). It reveales how religious fanaticism tore apart communities in the context of war. Plagued by draught, inept... |
Unbroken | Jolie, Angelina | 2014 | United States |
Unbroken tells the true story of Louis Zamperinin, who survived a plane crash only to be taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese during World War II. A former Olympic athlete and American military officer, Zamperinin experiences fear... |
Fury | Ayer, David | 2014 | United States |
April, 1945: as the Allies make their final push in the European theater, a battle-hardened American army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and... |
The Cut | Akin, Fatih | 2014 | Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Turkey |
This film is based on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915, which resulted in the forced migration and diaspora of the Armenian minority. One day a young family man, Nazaret Manoogian, gets deported by the Turkish authorities together... |