War Movies
War movies from independent, auteur and international cinema. This collection looks at war less as spectacle and more as human experience: the soldiers and the civilians, the front line and the home, the days of fighting and the long years after. It spans the two world wars, the conflicts that followed and the wars that rarely reach the headlines, with dramas, anti-war films and documentaries that choose intimacy over heroics. Many of these war films come from countries where the conflict was lived directly, and they carry a perspective that the large productions seldom offer: stories of fear, loss, survival and conscience, told with honesty and without comfort.
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MovieNasumice
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Drama, by Caleb Burdeau, United States/Italy/Bosnia, 2018.
Italy, 1994. The war in the Balkans drags on without end. Elvis, a young man from Sarajevo, is photographing tourists with his Polaroid to get by. After his camera is stolen, Elvis decides to visit Rodolfo, a stranger he met by chance in ... -
MovieRise and Shine
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Drammatico, di Alessandro Zonin, Italia, 2023.
Two young Marines share a room in a military hospital after being injured on a mission. Now they are healed and the time has come to return home: while waiting to leave they exchange confidences, expectations and plans. A beautiful and silent nurse l... -
MovieIntolerance
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Historical, drama, by David Wark Griffith, United States, 1916.
The Kolossal that changed the history of cinema by bringing ingenious and numerous innovations also to the cinematographic language. Made by Griffith as a response to accusations of racism for his previous film, Birth of a Nation. Fo... -
MovieBattleship Potemkin
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Drama, war, by Sergej Eisenstein, Russia, 1925.
The revolt of the sailors of the battleship Potemkin and the citizens of Odessa against the ruthless police of the tsar, who reacts with reprisals and carries out a massacre. Sergej Eisenstein makes a film commissioned by Goskino, the office for cin... -
MovieFear and Desire
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War, drama, by Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1953.
Fear and Desire is the first feature by Stanley Kubrick, a totally independent film financed by the director himself and by a fundraiser between friends and relatives. Made with a small crew, Kubrick also took care of the editing and photograph... -
MovieChildren of Hiroshima
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Drama, by Kaneto Shindō, Japan, 1952.
Takako Ishikawa is a teacher off the coast of Hiroshima and has not returned to his atomic bombed city in 4 years. His trip to Hiroshima becomes a journey to his destroyed homeland, in search of surviving old friends. The city has almost been rebuilt, but the...