Since 9/11, the US has used torture in the war on terror. But the true story started in the 50's with CIA-financed research programs on "enhanced interrogation techniques" at America's finest universities and spans to the current day on American soil. Over 70 years, the US has transformed the use of torture into state culture.
War rapes. Mass rapes. These terrifying words now regularly haunt international news reports amid attacks and massacres of civilians. As a "collateral" weapon of war, mass rapes perpetrated alongside every conflict have destroyed entire generations of women, men, and children. From Berlin in 1945 to Syria in 2015, via Italy, Japan, Rwanda, Serbia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, and the Islamic State, 70 years of war rape, slavery, and sexual torture.
On December 6, 1917, Finland declared its independence from Russia. A detailed chronicle of the major events in the history of this young European nation.
Sous-marins nucléaires : Les Armes de l'ombre
Les femmes disciples de Jésus
La dernière mission : l'histoire du U-190
39-45 L'histoire des bases sous-marines
Ghost of the Minerva
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Poolgeschichten - Der Traum vom kühlen Nass
A Counter Fire
A short documentary that brings light to the experiences of those who live with hidden disabilities. Through eight heartfelt interviews, participants share their struggles, strengths, and realities of their everyday lives.
A 26-year-old taxi driver drives towards the Hjälstaviken nature reserve and never comes home. A week later, the police make a macabre discovery: he is found dead, hanging from a tree. Suspicions are directed at five young people who were in the area. A 15-year-old girl had previously reported him for rape. Leif GW Persson examines the case and the legal proceedings.
The morning calm is broken in Skultuna and Rönnby in Västerås when a VMA is sent out and residents are asked to stay indoors. The police are hunting a 38-year-old suspect after two brutal violent crimes. A child calls 112 and says that his mother is being attacked. Shortly afterwards, a woman is found dead in her home. Leif GW Persson examines the case and the legal process.
“In a single day, how many really nonsignifying fields do we cross? Very few, sometimes none. Here I am, before the sea; it is true that it bears no message."–Roland Barthes, Mythologies. Here you are before the trees traverses Indigenous presence in the Hudson River Valley, Wisconsin, and the areas in-between. Presented in three channels, each screen focuses on different homelands and their complex relationships with history, landscape, power and institutional means of oppression.
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.
During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, did in fact unite the nation after subduing all of his enemies, yet falling at last to the treachery of one of his most trusted generals. This story is a pre-cursor to those later events as the brilliant military strategist Saito Dosan rises to power and notoriety as a great lord in his own right. Directed by Kudo Eiichi and with a tremendous supporting cast that includes Nakamura Toru as Oda Nobunaga and Chiba Shinichi as Akechi Mitsutsugu, battle scenes of awesome power and a unique view of Japanese history, this is a marvelous production highlighted by the action scenes done by the Japan Action Club (JAC).
Versailles, construction d'un rêve impossible
In the vast fields of Altai, a territory at the other end of the world, some isolated teenagers search for meaning in their life. The possible answers seem doomed from the outset by a time without utopias. Though there is still poetry; that of words and that of images.
Bismarck - Härte und Empfindsamkeit