Mitt under brinnande världskrig inledde de stridande soldaterna på västfronten juldagen 1914 en spontan vapenvila. De brittiska, tyska och franska soldaterna lämnade sina skyttegravar, sjöng julsånger och bytte gåvor med varandra.
Coriolanus är Roms store soldat och hjälte men han avskyr folket. Hans extrema åsikter sätter igång upplopp och staden blir ett blodbad. När han utmanövreras av politiker och till och med sin egen mor Volumnia bannlyses han från Rom. Han gör då gemensam sak med sin ärkefiende Tullus Aufidius och de två marscherar mot Rom för att förstöra staden.
A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the resolution of the war. The film contains plenty of unique footage of the final stages of the Continuation War.
The captains of two rival village cricket teams must put their longstanding grudge aside in order to take on the bullies threatening their right to play.
During a shaky 24-hour holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge, American Captain John Myers and a Belgian farm girl, Alina, fall in love. Forced to separate when fighting resumes, the couple vows to reunite, under a bell tower, the first Christmas Eve after the war ends, if each is alive and eager.
FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.
Stop-motion short by Massimo Ottoni. Follows the story of some soldiers during the Great War in an Austrian trench on the Italian front.