La guerre en Ukraine

Poilus

2016 · ★ 7.6

A young hare named Ferdinand is playing the harmonica before the battle. Soon the signal for attack will be given, and Ferdinand will face the terrible enemy on the battlefield.

Is Paris Burning?

1966 · ★ 7.2

Near the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to maintain control of the city. After much contemplation, Choltitz ignores orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, alongside Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a leader organise his forces.

Seeing Through the Darkness

2025

The film follows five people who lost their sight in armed conflicts, gathering fragments of their present-day lives. Through an enveloping sound composition, veiled archival material, footage shot by the protagonists themselves, and a sensitive visual approach, the film explores memory, perception, and our relationship to the visible. Steering away from spectacle, it invites us to hear what often goes unheard, and to feel differently. In an age saturated with images, this documentary offers a sensory experience where listening becomes a gesture of resistance and human reconnection.

Maria Theresa’s Dark Side

2024 · ★ 7.5

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a disastrous drama with repercussions for the whole of Europe. Against the spirit of enlightenment and tolerance, the very young Maria Theresa orders the expulsion of the allegedly disloyal Jews from Prague.

The Small Back Room

1949 · ★ 6.7

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Kabul Chaos

2025

A look back at the years leading up to the fall of Kabul and the perilous evacuation of civilians trapped inside the embassy in the hours following the Taliban's takeover of the country.

Turn in the Wound

2024 · ★ 6

Abel Ferrara explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and words of Patti Smith and the experiences of people at war in Ukraine.

Auschwitz: Countdown To Liberation

2025 · ★ 6.7

An exceptional documentary film that chronicles the liberation of Auschwitz, commencing on the day of liberation and backtracking in time to narrate the tragedy of the Holocaust from four distinct perspectives: the prisoners, the liberators, the perpetrators, and the local residents.

Resistance

2020 · ★ 7

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

The Ranger

The year is 2092, the world has fallen into another state of War. World War III has begun. A hidden device known as PA5305 can put an end to the disastrous War as we know it. Leaks on its location have spread, every side now hunts it down. Some to use it to end the War, others to destroy it for that very reason. A ranger has been sent on a solo mission across the battlefields to retrieve PA5305 from its leaked location. The enemy side has sent a hunter to track down the ranger and stop him in his path. Whoever retrieves the device will decide the fate of World War III.

The Great War

1959 · ★ 8.1

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

I Betrayed Hitler

2016 · ★ 7

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.