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Bedford: The Town They Left Behind
USA, 2009, 75 min.
During WWII, Bedford, Virginia was a town of a few thousand residents, 19 of whom lost their lives in the D-Day invasion — a higher proportion than any other place in the US. This film examines the lives of those who died and those who survived, as well as Bedford's role in current conflicts.... more
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Captive
Bulgaria, 2008, 80 min.
When a convoy of Russian soldiers finds itself trapped in the mountainous Chechen landscape, the commander orders two men to capture a local who knows the mountain trails and can lead them to safety. This intense contemporary war film is as much a psychological drama as it is an action picture.... more
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Female Agents
France, 2008, 121 min.
A high-octane French action film with an all-star international cast, Female Agents is the fictionalized account of Resistance heroines who save the day for the Allies in World War II by rescuing a British geologist from occupied France before the Gestapo can force him to reveal plans.... more
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Forgotten Transports: To Estonia
Czech Republic, 2008, 85 min.
Bearing witness to some little-told stories of the Holocaust, this moving documentary offers an important contribution to WWII history as it traces the harrowing three-year odyssey of roughly 100 young Czech Jewish women after they arrived in Estonia on September 5, 1942.... more
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Heart of Fire
Kenya, 2008, 94 min.
Set in Eritrea during the last stages of the second Ethiopian civil war in the early '80s, Heart of Fire traces the story of young Awet, who is taken from a Catholic orphanage and reunited with her father, a former freedom fighter, only to be conscripted into service as a child soldier.... more
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The Inheritance of War
USA, 2009, 72 min.
When Palm Desert attorney James Parkinson took on the case of a group of WWII POWs looking to sue the Japanese companies who used them as slave laborers, his life was changed forever. An eye-opening account of a little-known chapter of the war — the Bataan Death March.... more
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My Marlon and Brando
Turkey, 2008, 92 min.
The true-life border-crossing romance between a Turkish actress and her Kurdish lover gets a semi-fictional work-up with the real actress earning kudos for taking on her own role. A moving statement on war, human rights and the confining artificiality of borders.... more
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No One's Son
Croatia, 2008, 100 min.
Ivan (Alen Liveric), a Croatian war veteran, doesn't have much to live for. He's lost both legs in a minefield, his ex-wife is leaving the country, and he is dependent on his parents. When a devastating family secret is revealed, Ivan goes over the edge.... more
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Snow
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008, 100 min.
In a remote Bosnian village, wartime survivors attempt to keep the memories of their loved ones alive. But when the first snow threatens further isolation, the stage is set for a final confrontation with the outside world. Grand Prize, International Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival.... more
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The Tour
Serbia, 2008, 105 min.
In 1993, a naive Belgrade-based theater company embarks on an increasingly dangerous tour of the war-torn Krajina in this jet-black road movie. Tapping the sweet spot between comedy and tragedy, this treatise on war's chaos and humanity's foibles is accessible.... more
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Under the Bombs
Lebanon, 2007, 98 min.
Shot during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, which devastated Lebanon's infrastructure and civilian population, this docu-fiction road movie combines real footage of the massive destruction with a fictional narrative about a Shiite woman searching for her missing son.... more
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Waltz with Bashir
Israel, 2008, 87 min.
A film about memory and responsibility that uses powerful animation to recreate the hallucinogenic qualities of recollection, this unique documentary shows how Lebanon is part of the Israeli psyche, its shadow, its other place.... more
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