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War
see all genres ›Stories of soldiers, civilians, politicians and history itself give the "war documentary" genre variety and depth. With armed conflict, its causes and casualties, as starting points, nonfiction war films speak to a broad array of human concerns.
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Genres / Documentary / War
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The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
For over 25 years, Afghanistan has been at war. Over two million civilians have been killed. In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed the tallest stone statues in the world, the 'Buddhas of Bamiyan'. Over the course of a year, this film follows the story of one of the refugees who now lives in a cave...Start your free trial to watch
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The Corporal's Diary
Twenty-two year old Corporal Jonathan Santos had documented his 37 days of military service in Iraq in a personal diary before a roadside bomb took his life and the lives of several of his friends and servicemen on October 15, 2004. Jonathan's mother, Doris, wasn't aware that her son had kept a diary until...Start your free trial to watch
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Deserter
DESERTER is the journey of Ryan and Jen Johnson, a deserting soldier and his young wife, as they flee across the country to seek refugee status over the Canadian border. As they move from safe house to safe house, we get to know Ryan and Jen, two shy, small-town kids from the Central Valley who joined the military because...Start your free trial to watch
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Double-Headed Eagle
Rather than offering a contemporary interpretation of history through narration and interviews, filmmaker Lutz Becker allows the disturbing saga of German fascism to unfold on its own terms. The rise of the National Socialist Party is depicted almost exclusively in newsreel footage and clips of features...Start your free trial to watch
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Dragoons Crossing the Saône
Several tiers of shirtless dragoons ford a river with their horses in this amusing Lumière short. The riders enter the frame in saddle but don’t stay there for long. Infantrymen across the river are distant enough to proceed unaware of the filming in progress.Start your free trial to watch
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Emmanuel Jal: War Child
“Left home at the age of seven, one year later I’m carryin’ an AK-47.” His electrifying music crackles with both pain and hope. For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan’s brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. They are the bitter reality of a young man who was...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fever of '57
THE FEVER OF '57 shows what happened after the launch of Sputnik and reveals how Cold War tensions escalated between the Superpowers to a fever pitch. THE FEVER OF '57 is a must-see for students. Dramatic and fast-paced, it shows what happened after the launch of Sputnik 1 and what happened in America as a...Start your free trial to watch
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5 Broken Cameras
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Academy Awards®, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is an extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism and a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fourth World War
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine and Korea, THE FOURTH WORLD WAR is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. While our airwaves are crowded with talk of war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Good Soldier
What does it really mean to be a "good" soldier? Following the journeys of four veterans from three generations of wars, we realize that it means killing without hesitation, never asking questions and accepting innocent casualties as collateral damage.Start your free trial to watch
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Hanoi, Martes 13
Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to the Vietnamese people transcends its narrow aim as anti-imperialist agit-prop. Patient documentation of local folkways contextualizes the American military actions as brutal, unnatural incursions. Alvarez’s camera was there when the bombs fell on Hanoi and stayed on to witness...Start your free trial to watch
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How to Fold a Flag
Five years after filming the now classic Iraq war film GUNNER PALACE, directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein turn their focus on America and follow the same soldiers home as each struggles to define their wartime experience in a country largely indifferent to their service. In North Carolina, Javorn...Start your free trial to watch
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In Their Hands
IN THEIR HANDS follows the psychotherapy of vulnerable people, that in some cases have been destroyed by acts of torture. Their speech deals with an inhuman past: they want to stop the pain, rule out the folly and protect their family from the violence that sleeps within them, be understood and recognized; these are the...Start your free trial to watch
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Iraq for Sale
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE, OUTFOXED and UNCOVERED) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. IRAQ FOR SALE uncovers the connections between private...Start your free trial to watch
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Iraq in Fragments
An opus in three parts, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a...Start your free trial to watch
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Know Your Enemy: Japan
This U.S. War Department propaganda film was little seen for decades, its production so dogged by conflict that by the time of its completion World War II had ended. Famed Hollywood director Frank Capra (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) assigned Dutch-born documentarian Joris Ivens in early 1943 to assemble a...Start your free trial to watch
