Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late father's history, discovers many things that she had not known, among them that her father had spent time in Manzanar, the internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, that he had had a family prior to hers, and that somewhere out there was a sister she had never known existed.
In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script.
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.
October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb, carries on his back the lifeless body of his younger brother. An American military photographer, Joe O'Donnell, took a picture of the boy standing stoically near a cremation pit. No one knows the subject's name, but the photo has become an iconic image of the human tragedy of nuclear war. This documentary follows the continuing efforts to deepen understanding of the photograph, while exploring the fate of thousands of atomic-bomb orphans and their struggles to survive the aftermath of World War II.
Jimmy McNamara is an ex-writer and WWII vet turned accountant who receives a call from Vivian, his ex-fiance and nightclub singer. Vivian got a Hollywood contract and is taking Jimmy with her. All he has to do is retrieve the negatives of compromising pictures that put her bright future in danger. But Jimmy's mission might not be as simple as it seems.
Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.
World War II. Albania is under the Nazi occupation. The Germans capture two young girls and torture them to learn more about the communist movement.
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.
Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous tale of personal heartbreak and loss, and of his hard won understanding of the nature of love
Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.
妻とその愛人を射殺したかどでショーシャンク刑務所送りとなった銀行家アンディ。初めは戸惑っていたが、やがて彼は自ら持つ不思議な魅力ですさんだ受刑者達の心を掴んでゆく。そして20年の歳月が流れた時、彼は冤罪を晴らす重要な証拠をつかむ。
シシリーからアメリカに移住し、一代で財を成したドン・コルレオーネ。三男のマイケルはひとり堅気な人生を送ろうとしていたが、敵対するファミリーにドンが襲われ重傷を負った時、彼は報復を決意する。そしてニューヨークは抗争の場と化していった……。
Julian Albans, the bully who left Beecher Prep, is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. As a girl in Nazi-occupied France, the young Grandmère goes into hiding with the help of a schoolmate, a young man who risks everything to give her the chance to survive. Together, they find beauty and love in the secret world of their own creation.
Young revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha fights for Indian Independence in the early 1900s.
「史上最大の作戦」ノルマンディー上陸作戦。掩蔽壕の機関銃座から猛烈な銃撃を受けながらもオマハ・ビーチ上陸作戦を生き残った米軍第5軍第2レンジャー大隊C中隊隊長のミラー大尉（トム・ハンクス）の下に、米第7軍第101空挺師団第506パラシュート歩兵連隊第1大隊B中隊に所属するジェームス・ライアン2等兵（マット・デイモン）をノルマンディー戦線から探し出し無事帰国させよ、という任務が下った。ライアン家の4人兄弟はジェームス以外の3人の兄弟が戦死し、彼が唯一の生存者であった。息子たちの帰国を本国で待つ母親に息子全員の戦死の報せが届くのはあまりに残酷だ。たった一人だけでも生かし、母親の下に息子を返してやりたいという軍上層部の配慮だった。ミラーは兵士一人を救出するために部下の命を危険にさらす任務に乗り気ではなかったが、危険極まりない敵陣深く進入し、ジェームス・ライアンを救出するための捜索を始める。
孤独なおもちゃ職人のゼペットじいさんによって作られ、命を宿した木製の人形“ピノッキオ”が、人間になることを夢見ながらゼペットじいさんと繰り広げる愛と葛藤の大冒険を、ダークかつファンタジックなヴィジュアルで切なくもハートウォーミングに描き出していく。
第2次世界大戦中、才能にあふれた物理学者のロバート・オッペンハイマーは、核開発を急ぐ米政府のマンハッタン計画において、原爆開発プロジェクトの委員長に任命される。しかし、実験で原爆の威力を目の当たりにし、さらにはそれが実戦で投下され、恐るべき大量破壊兵器を生み出したことに衝撃を受けたオッペンハイマーは、戦後、さらなる威力をもった水素爆弾の開発に反対するようになるが……。
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