War

Ashes in the Snow, a harrowing story inspired by true events, follows a 16-year-old girl who is deported to Siberia during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. In 1941, at the height of WWII, Stalins Red Army violently invades and ruthlessly deports Baltic families from their home...s. Among them, promising young artist Lina, along with her mother and younger brother, are exiled to a remote and brutal Soviet labour camp. But despite being separated from her father and subjected to daily oppression, Lina remains resilient. Her strength and unwavering optimism shows through in her artand inspires others to have faith that they may have a future. A beautifully executed, heart-breaking and captivating drama, Ashes in the Snow unveils a forgotten part of history and reminds us of the impact on everyday lives caused by war.
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Two worthy Academy Award nominees from 1950s Sunset Boulevard actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder reteamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Ac...tor Oscar win for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among the prisoners. Is it Sefton? Famed producer/director Otto Preminger tackles a rare acting role as the camps commandant; actor Robert Strauss won a Supporting Actor nomination for his role as Animal.
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November 1943. A British commando squad is teamed with an American officer (Ed Westwick TVs Gossip Girl) on a covert mission into Poland, deep behind enemy lines. Working with the resistance they cross into the harsh Polish wilderness intent on kidnapping and extracting a sought-...after Polish scientist from the Germans. Fabian is known to hold information on secret innovations that would prove vital to the Allied efforts. But with a German hunter unit on their tail and a Russian squad also intent on kidnapping Fabian for their own ends, it becomes a race against time that for the winners, will change the shape of the war.
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When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government.