During the American Civil War, a group of Union soldiers escape from a Confederate prison camp and end up on a mysterious island. They encounter various challenges and creatures while trying to survive and find a way back home.
A working-class father is disappointed in his son's lack of ambition. When the father goes in for anesthesia in the operating room, chaos ensues as the son inadvertently causes havoc in a factory. This leads to a clash of class differences and military-industry tensions.
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show.
A handful of recruits prepares for a war that nobody knows about the purpose or the motive. The field commander is a general who plays with a Marx puppet and lives in a luxurious palace that looks like a cabin from the outside. His orderlies are a captain who lives in Arabic dress in a curtain and a sergeant in training who does not shine for intelligence. Continuing training between various and grotesque accidents until the order arrives for the front. And then?
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and producer Saadi Yacef, who discuss the process of representing Algeria's struggle for independence and the challenges of presenting a balanced view of the conflict.
Feature-film director Michel Audiard tackles what he believes to be the mistakenly heroic status given to Charles De Gaulle. In this documentary film, he uses humor, among other things, to demythologize him.
Anti-war animation about man's passions for self-destruction by experimenting with dangerous chemicals.
The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.
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