war against fascism

Red Ghost

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.

Shanghai

Thu, 10 Jun 2010

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Idiot's Delight

Fri, 27 Jan 1939

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Sat, 06 May 1939

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Confidential Agent

Fri, 02 Nov 1945

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

Milicianes

Thu, 17 Jan 2019

Volere Votare

Thu, 02 Jun 2016

Through the testimonies of some Italian women, the documentary evokes the day of 2 June 1946, when they were called upon to cast their vote for the first time. The battles conducted by Italian women in the years leading up to 1946 to demand recognition of the right to vote. The approval of the right to vote for women by the Italian Parliament on 1 February 1945, at the proposal of the Italian Communist Party Secretary Palmiro Togliatti and statesman and founder of the Christian Democratic Party De Gasperi. The role of the first 21 women elected to the Constituent Assembly on 2 June 1946, and their contribution to the writing of the Italian Constitution.

Fallas 37: el arte en guerra

Sat, 02 Mar 2013

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Second Republic moves to Valencia. In this situation, several Valencian artists and intellectuals decide to build four fallas — satirical plasterboard sculptures created to be burnt — to mock fascism.