“Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.” This Cannes Jury Prize winner is based on Kurt Vonnegut’s celebrated anti-war novel about a writer who tells a non-chronological story centered on his experiences as a soldier in World War II and as a time-traveler. | Country: United States | Russian, English, German, with English subtitles
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One of the greatest comedies of all time. After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, Russian
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Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus Language: German, Farsi, French, Italian, EnglishA young Jewish man pretends to be Persian to avoid being executed in a concentration camp. He survives by inventing words of “Farsi” and teaching them to the head of camp. But he will not be able to keep his secret very long. A 2020 Berlin Film Festival selection from the director of 2003’s House of Sand and Fog.
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Country: United States Language: English, French, VietnameseVietnam on Film: 50 Years Later | Presented by Gateway Film Center in partnership with the National Veterans Museum, the National Veterans Film Festival, and the Ohio History Connection. Experience this definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola’s vivid Palme d’Or-winning war epic, the final presentation in the series.At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission to locate – and eliminate – a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
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Country: Finland Language: Finnish, EnglishVengeance is golden. During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. World Premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Country: United States Language: EnglishVietnam on Film: 50 Years Later | Presented by Gateway Film Center in partnership with the National Veterans Museum, the National Veterans Film Festival, and the Ohio History Connection.A story of innocence lost and courage found. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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Country: Japan Language: JapaneseNearsighted and unable to be a pilot, Jiro channels his dreams of flying into becoming one of the world’s most accomplished airplane designers. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.
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Posted on March 23, 2023
Country: Japan Language: JapaneseAfter losing their mother in the final months of World War II, two orphans move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive. An artistic and emotional tour de force based on the retellings of survivor Nosaka Akiyuki.
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Country: Spain, France Language: SpanishIt’s “Bambi meets Apocalypse Now” in this provocative and strangely beautiful horror comedy from acclaimed filmmaker and illustrator Alberto Vazquez, who uses its outrageous candy-colored premise to explore religious zealotry, the tortured legacies of military fascism, and the depths of the soul.
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Country: United States Language: EnglishTrapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other. Official Selection, Buffalo International Film Festival
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