Letter to Obama

Two sons from the beach refugee camp for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip decide to correspond with US President Barack Obama on his Facebook page. They ask him, as president of the United States, to intervene and lift the years-long blockade, inviting him and his wife to visit Gaza and watch the suffering of people there. But they don’t receive a response from him, deciding to use a small video camera to record a very angry video message addressed to Barack Obama from the campers

2013-05-28 | ar

Newfoundland at Armageddon

On July 1st, 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment took part in a massive First World War offensive on the Somme, led by the British. At Beaumont Hamel the regiment was nearly wiped out, as only 110 of 780 soldiers survived the day. To commemorate its 100th anniversary, Brian McKenna’s documentary film tells the story of this epic tragedy. Using a technique that brings new meaning to reenactment, McKenna recruits descendants of soldiers who fought this battle, offering them a unique opportunity to relive the experience of their ancestors in trenches built specifically for the film.

2016-06-30 | en

Tomorrow's Children

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.

1934-07-02 | en

Terror Studios

How the Islamic State has created a powerful propaganda factory that manipulates and twists at its convenience the subjects and icons of the Western popular culture in order to lure into darkness certain young people and recruit them to achieve a dreadful purpose, an industry of fear that overcomes the infamous Nazi machinery and the methods used by both sides during the Cold War.

2016-09-20 | fr

Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk

This film is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatima. Offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. She has become my eyes in Gaza, and I, her connection to the outside world. We have kept this line of life going for almost a year. The bits of pixel and sound that we exchanged have become the film that you see.

2025-05-13 | fa

Sunflowers in the Rain

In 2023, during the second year of full scale war, civilians in Ukraine endure constant hardships and terrorist attacks, yet rather than cower or give up hope and leave, many civilians in Ukraine tirelessly volunteer, work, collaborate, and create in support of Ukraine's people, army, animals, and future. "Sunflowers in the Rain" weaves together 10 vignettes from volunteers and civilians working across Ukraine show us the realities of civilian life in a country at war, the inspiring and the tragic moments, and the ways ordinary people have stepped up to face new challenges on their personal quests to help the country persevere.

2024-09-14 | en

WWI Chronicles: When All Hope Was Lost

2025-04-14 | en

Yaazhi

Yaazhi, a mythical creature once sworn to protect its land and people, fails and abandons the battlefield. As it flees, the real war begins—a battle within the mind. When a protector turns deserter, can redemption ever be found?

2025-04-17 | ta

The Scent of Burning Grass

This military drama weaves together the diaries and memories of North Vietnamese soldiers who fought in the ferocious 1972 battle of Quang Tri.

2012-04-24 | vi

The Sinking of the Lusitania

Winsor McCay recreates the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in this propaganda piece designed to stir up anti-German sentiment during World War I.

1918-07-20 | en

Design for Death

Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII.

1948-06-10 | en

Hanoi, Tuesday 13th

In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this short documentary all in one day - Tuesday 13. The film is the story of that day, and what happened to the North Vietnamese people in the course of it.

1969-10-03 | es

Czechoslovakia 1968

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.

1969-12-31 | en

The Eleventh Year

The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.

1928-05-14 | ru

The House in the Middle

Short film that emphasizes the importance of keeping a tidy home when facing an atomic bomb.

1954-12-31 | en

Shivtown

"Surrounded by dozens of soldiers like me, I was led by bus to a remote camp in the desert, a place I knew nothing about. As a military photographer, I collected fragments of moments in my photos, serving as solid evidence for me." Shivtown is the story of an ordinary soldier who, in an intimate and courageous act, revisits memories from his military service through the still images he captured with an analog camera.

2025-03-26 | en

No Substitute for Victory

John Wayne hosts this video which was produced during the Vietnam War when the Communist threat was at its height.

1970-01-01 | en

Salt for Svanetia

An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.

1930-05-24 | ka

Brutal World

Witness the unvarnished realities of death in the 2020s. From the modern faces of assassination and war, to the urban atrocities unfolding every day in U.S. cities, morbid maestro H66DLESS WIZ6RD illuminates the veiled violence of the decade thus far.

2025-04-25 | en

USS VD: Ship of Shame

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.

1942-01-02 | en