Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2011

Deathwatch (2002)



In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night. They capture a German soldier that advises that evil is in the trench, forcing the soldiers to kill each other, and asks them to leave the place. Only the private Charlie Shakespeare listens and helps the prisoner, while a supernatural force scares and makes the soldiers insane.



Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Battleship Potemkin (1925)


Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Horse Soldiers (1959)


A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail/supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence. The Union officers each have different reasons for wanting to be on the mission.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Night Watch (2011)


In post-war London Viv Pearce,seeing married spiv Reggie,runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver,who lives with her older lover,authoress Julia Standing. Viv's younger brother Duncan,a tormented gay,has been in prison and is sought out by his - straight - ex-cellmate Robert Fraser,who served time as a conscientious objector and is now concerned for the boy's welfare. Viv encounters Kay Langrish,a wealthy,reclusive butch Lesbian and for both women this evokes memories of 1944 when Kay was an heroic ambulance driver and Helen was Kay's girlfriend,before Kay introduced her to her ex-lover Julia. Viv had an illegal abortion,funded by Reggie,and,after she needed hospital treatment,Kay saved her from prosecution by claiming she was a married woman who had miscarried. Three years earlier Kay and Julia are still an item and Viv meets unhappily married soldier Reggie on a train. Kay...

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)


Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their soldier father's destiny is unknown, the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.