I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
ā 6.7 Ā· 2018 Ā· 138m Ā· History Ā· Drama Ā· Comedy
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
More Like This
Rosewood
1997 Ā· ā 6.5
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
More info ā
Kabei: Our Mother
2008 Ā· ā 7.6
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
More info ā
National Theatre Live: Nye
2024 Ā· ā 7
Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Winston Churchill.
More info ā
Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder
1940
A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.
More info ā
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988 Ā· ā 6.7
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
More info ā
Two in a Big City
1942 Ā· ā 6.3
A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her.
More info ā
Love and War
2019 Ā· ā 10
Marlin (Joe Wilcox) and his slightly crazy but loving wife Elvira (Lauren Campbell) are having money troubles in the 1940ās. Marlin seems to have caught his lucky break when a powerful person in the war is interested in him making a propaganda movie for him. Unfortunately the couple may have bitten off more than they could chew.
More info ā
Emotional Arithmetic
2008 Ā· ā 5.5
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War II.
More info ā
Monster
2023 Ā· ā 7.9
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
More info ā
The Zookeeper's Wife
2017 Ā· ā 7.3
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
More info ā
Stolz der Nation
2009 Ā· ā 6.7
The "true" story of Wehrmacht sniper Fredrick Zoller as he single-handedly fends off an Allied siege of a Sicilian town.
More info ā
The Painted Bird
2019 Ā· ā 7.1
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
More info ā