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Live From The Past - World War II Begins in Europe

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 17

Language : English

This documentary offers a viewpoint of the Iwo Jima battle that took place between the US and Japan in Feb-March 45 during the Pacific Campaign of WWII, known as of the fiercest of the campaign. The US invasion was charged with the mission of capturing the airfields on Iwo Jima. The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified and armed. The imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously, but the Marines eventually secured the island. The battle assumed legendary status in the collective consciousness of the American people. This film takes aerial photographs taken during the war...

Director : Steve Baker

Production Year : 2005

Language : English

Empire of the Sun

The end of colonization in East Asia during the WWII as seen through the eyes of a young British boy who loses his parents and ends up in a refugee camp where only the strong survive.

Director : Steven Spielberg

Production Year : 1987

Duration : 150

Language : English, Japanese

Hiroshima

This docu-drama explores the events leading up to dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and incorporates footage, newsreels, armed forces films and eye-witness accounts. Nominated for Emmy award and winner of Eddie (American Cinema Editors) and Gemini (The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television) awards.

Director : Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 190

Language : English, Japanese

From Here To Eternity

Based on the novel by James Jones (1951), this all-star war drama is set on a US Army Base in Hawaii, short while before the Japanese attack on pearl Harbour and focuses on the conflict between individualism and institutional authority. Private "Prew" Prewitt (Clift), a former boxer, reports for duty at an infantry unit where he soon meets his new company commander Captain Holmes and 1st Sergeant Warden (Lancaster). When Prewitt refuses to join the company boxing team he finds himself the target of unremitting harassment. Meanwhile, Warden begins love affair with the commander’s wife Karen (Kerr). One night...

Director : Fred Zinnemann

Production Year : 1953

Duration : 118

Language : English

Gladiators of WWII - The Anzacs

This programme tells the often neglected story of the Anzacs - the Australian/New Zealand Army Corps - whose tenacious spirit, unquestionable military stamina and courage under deplorable conditions led frequently to victory over Hitler's allies South of Europe.

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 48

Language : English

Gladiators of WWII - The Kamikazes

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" focuses on the Kamikaze, Japanese suicide units carrying out attacks against Allied shipping during 1944-45 at the Pacific front. These attacks, related to the Bushido tradition, followed critical defeats for Japan and its reluctance to surrender. Kamikaze pilots would intentionally crash their aircraft (usually laden with explosives and fuel) into Allied ships with a goal of causing greater damage than a conventional attack. The first Kamikaze assault took place during The Battle of Leyte in Oct' 44. The peak came during April-June 45, at the Battle...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 48

Language : English

The Third Reich in Color 1937-1945

This program tells of the Japanese Kamikazes (suicide pilots) and claims that Japan was not the only nation to use this tactic during World War II. Military insiders reveal here that high-ranking female officer in the SS devised suicide program and although her vision was never completely realized, German soldiers did fly suicide missions. The program also details how German myths of the Teutonic Knights and Friedrich the Great were used to inspire the soldiers for their task and explores the differences between the German and Japanese Kamikaze programs. Including also reference to September 11th terror...

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 100

Hirohito

Hirohito (1901-1989) was the last Japanese ruler to uphold the Shinto idea of imperial divinity. His 60 years rule saw his nation transformed from a traditional society to a industrial modern one. Emperor Hirohito led his nation into a devastating war, but oversaw its rebirth as well. Through interviews and archival footage, this program traces the long life of this figure, presents footage of his coronation as emperor and proclamation of divinity in 1926, traces the elements that led his nation into war, and explain how he eventually accepted defeat and allowed his nation to be steered toward the future.

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 50

Language : English

Samurai And The Swastika

Using documents, archival footage, recollections of soldiers and commentary from historians, Samurai and the Swastika looks at how the Axis powers supported each other throughout World War II.

Director : George Kerevan

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 93

Language : English

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