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zionism

Kaouther Ben Hania Director

Amer Hlehel as Mahdi M. Aljamal

Clara Khoury as Nisreen Jeries Qawas

Motaz Malhees as Omar A. Alqam

Firas Khoury as Volunteer 1

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

2025

palestinian-israeli conflict

♡ 3

98%

War

An Iranian filmmaker participates in a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist who describes her life confined in Gaza during the current regional conflict.

5 Days of War

2011

5.6

♡ 5

35%

Renny Harlin Director

Heather Graham as Miriam Eisner

Andy Garcia as President Mikheil Saakashvili

Richard Coyle as Sebastian Ganz

Rupert Friend as Thomas Anders

An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing Tatia, a young Georgian schoolteacher separated from her family during the attack, the two reporters agree to help reunite her with her family in exchange for serving as their interpreter. As the three attempt to escape to safety, they witness--and document--the devastation from the full-scale crossfire and cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians.

The Butcher of Prague

2011

Czech

6.8

♡ 7

prague, czech republic

War

world war ii

Petr Nikolaev Director

Karel Roden as Frantisek Síma

Joachim Paul Assböck as Harald Wiesmann

Norbert Lichý as Mayor

Roman Luknár as Vlcek

Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.

Slaughterhouse-Five

1972

6.8

♡ 17

82%

68%

husband wife relationship

Comedy

Drama

George Roy Hill Director

Richard Stahl as Army Doctor

Warren Frost as Driver

Eugene Roche as Edgar Derby

Perry King as Robert Pilgrim

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

The Odessa File

1974

7.0

♡ 16

69%

64%

assassin

Ronald Neame Director

Peter Jeffrey as David Porath

Maximilian Schell as Eduard Roschmann

Jon Voight as Peter Miller

Mary Tamm as Sigi

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.

Heaven & Earth

1993

6.8

♡ 19

based on a true story

Oliver Stone Director

Timothy Carhart as Big Mike

Marshall Bell as Dinner Guest #3

Dale Dye as Larry

Jeffrey Jones as Minister

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.

I Can Speak

2017

Korean

7.5

♡ 8

94%

Hyun-seok Kim Director

Marty Terry as Michelle

Son Sook as Moon Jeong-sim

Lee Jehoon as Park Min-jae

Hye-ran Yeom as Woman from Jinju

A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.

Under the Wire

2018

7.7

♡ 1

85%

94%

Documentary

investigative journalist

syrian civil war

Chris Martin Director

Janine Birkett as Marie Colvin

Julian Lewis Jones as Paul Conroy

Anne Wittman as Voiceover artist

Ziad Abaza as Wa'el

On 12 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin. The other was photographer, Paul Conroy. Their aim was to cover the plight of Syrian civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army. Only one of them returned.

Scars of Nanking

2017

6.4

♡ 1

second sino-japanese war

John Ealer Director

Michael Koltes as Archibald Steele

Konan Cheung as Japanese Sergeant

Ines Laimins as Minnie Vautrin

Christine Choy as Self

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.

Nuremberg

2000

7.3

♡ 16

73%

Yves Simoneau Director

Alec Baldwin as Justice Robert H. Jackson 2 episodes, 2000

Mark Ryan as Maj. Airey Neave 1 episode, 2000

Brian Cox as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring 2 episodes, 2000

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

My Enemy's Enemy

2007

7.3

♡ 2

77%

Kevin Macdonald Director

Kevin Macdonald as Narrator / Interviewer

Adolf Hitler as Self

René Hardy as Self

Jacques Vergès as Self

Reveals an alternate history of the post-war world. This is a version of history where, in contrast to what we are all told, fascist ideology prevailed. The story of Klaus Barbie, Nazi torturer, American spy, tool of repressive right-wing regimes, is symbolic of the real relationship that the "Western" governments had with fascism and makes us see the world as it is today - and the politicians that inhabit it - in a different way.

The Painted Bird

2019

Czech

7.3

♡ 18

81%

72%

war with fascist germany

Václav Marhoul Director

Julian Sands as Garbos

Aleksey Kravchenko as Gavrila

Stellan Skarsgård as Hans

Harvey Keitel as Priest

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

Herstory

2018

Korean

6.8

♡ 3

1990s

based on a true story

Kyu-dong Min Director

Ji-min Han as

Hae-suk Kim as Bae Jeong-gil

Jun-han Kim as Lee Sang-il

Yoo-Young Lee as Ryu Seon-yeong

A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.

The General Died at Dawn

1936

6.5

♡ 1

100%

Lewis Milestone Director

William Frawley as Brighton

J.M. Kerrigan as Leach

Gary Cooper as O'Hara

Philip Ahn as Oxford

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

1983

Japanese

7.2

♡ 17

christmas movie alternative

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Daisuke Iijima as Corporal Ueki

Takeshi Kitano as Hara

Masanori Okada as Japanese Soldier

Hiroshi Mikami as Japanese Soldier

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

The Great Raid

2005

6.6

♡ 53

39%

70%

based on a true story

John Dahl Director

James Franco as Captain Prince

Marton Csokas as Captain Redding

Connie Nielsen as Margaret Utinsky

Sam Worthington as PFC Lucas

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

The Hunting Party

2007

japanese occupation of korea

6.7

♡ 17

56%

Richard Shepard Director

Jesse Eisenberg as Benjamin Strauss

Diane Kruger as Mirjana

Richard Gere as Simon Hunt

Goran Kostic as Srdjan

A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.

Snowy Road

2015

Korean

7.2

♡ 6

comfort women

Drama

History

Lee Na-Jeong Director

Hyang-gi Kim as Choi Jong-Boon

Sae-ron Kim as Kang Young-Ae

Young-joo Seo as Kang Young-Joo

Myeong-hoon Park as Police Officer

Jong-bun, in her eighties, is one of the last surviving 'Comfort Women' victims forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II. Back in 1944, at the end of the Japanese occupation in Korea, Jong-bun was a poor but energetic girl while Young-ae was the smart rich clerk's daughter. One day, Jong-bun gets abducted and finds herself on a train for Manchuria. To her surprise, she also finds Young-ae on the train facing the same fate to become a comfort woman. Jong-bun and Young-ae help each other go through the living hell and as the war comes to an end, they finally escape from the comfort women camp, only to face two different paths of life. Decades later, Jong-bun helps out a teenaged girl who is disoriented in life, reminded of her own painful past.

Conspiracy

2001