Leier und Schwert

A Piece of Land

June 2019 •Kurdish

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to move on and begin a new life.

This Is Their Land

September 2022 •English

Captain Jack, the leader of the Modoc Tribe, attempts to negotiate peace between the army leadership and his tribe following a crushing victory over the US Army.

La Nueve

October 2020 •Spanish

A young man accompanies his mother to a nursing home where he meets don Manuel, a World War II veteran.

Là où poussent les coquelicots

March 2017 •French

Nocturne in Black

May 2016 •Arabic

In a war-ravaged Syrian neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.

Night and Fog

April 1959 •French

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Bad Omen

September 2020 •Persian

Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.

Story of a Dog

October 1945 •English

A dog trains for the battlefield and becomes a crucial part of the United States military. This 1945 short documentary film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short, One-Reel.

Orpheus

August 2013 •Bosnian

It’s a beautiful winter day. Four children are playing on the bridge, but fifth actor enters the game... The sniper.

The Fighting Generation

October 1944 •English

A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.

Sugartown

August 2011 •English

Five marine Operatives are stranded after crash landing in the barren Iraqi desert. They are under strict orders to deliver an important package to Ramadi and they have already been trekking through enemy territory for three days in hopes of completing their mission.

Through My Thick Glasses

June 2004 •Norwegian

An elderly man tells his granddaughter his personal story of the Second World War. His life as a child and all the strange characters he populates it with takes the little girl to a bizarre world she doesn't understand.

M.I.A.

January 2024 •English

After a hasty retreat near La Fere, Matthew Villeneuve is found Missing in action. But he survived, and now has to find his way back to friendly lines.

The White Helmets

September 2016 •Arabic

As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.

Frame for the Picture of My Homeland

August 2005 •Serbian

Based on a true story, the film presents events similar to those in the Lukić indictment.

Kobzar 2015

May 2017 •Ukrainian

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

One of the Bravest

January 1914 •English

A romantic drama about love and jealousy. Two firefighters want the same girl. She almost gets married to Harry, but John sneakily keeps her from doing so, and then marries her himself. After a year, he has started drinking and has lost his job, and his wife has to go to work at the factory. When a fire breaks out there, he rescues her, but loses his own life in the process.

Flowing Home

November 2021 •French

The intertwining fates of two Vietnamese sisters who sustain a wartime relationship through written correspondence.

Wartime

January 1988 •English

While on a seemingly routine delivery run for the Brigadier, Benton finds himself close to his childhood home, where ghosts from his past have never rested easily… Trapped in a nightmare world where past and present are one, will he be lost forever or can he fight his way back to reality, where he is desperately needed?

V for Victory

January 1941 •English

This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm film stock and synchronized with a brass band rendition of Sousa's march "The Thunderer."