Signals - After Victory
Overview of films
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The 400 Million
Joris Ivens | 52' | China | None
A partisan documentary film on the Chinese resistance against Japan. A classic of world cinema. -
Algérie en flammes
René Vautier | 20' | France | None
Scenes from the FLN’s struggle for the independence of Algeria. Film making as an act of solidarity in the international anti-imperialist struggle. Pa -
Avoir vingt ans dans les Aurès
René Vautier | 100' | France | None
Spring 1961: A bunch of draftees from Brittany, all pacifists, are turned into soldiers – all of them, save one. A research-based experiment in empath -
Bad Blue Boys
Branko Schmidt | 28' | Croatia | None
Scenes from the daily life of a Bad Blue Boy and war veteran – whose face one never gets to see, making him into something… -
The Battle of China
Anatole Litvak, Frank Capra | 65' | USA | None
An exemplary piece of propaganda made to ‘educate’ American soldiers about the civilisation they were going to defend and the enemy they would have to -
Beaufort
Joseph Cedar | 120' | Israel | None
An at times almost abstract combat film of the more meditative kind which tells of daily life in the army outpost Beaufort toward the end… -
City of Life and Death
Lu Chuan | 132' | China | None
Impressive chronicle in beautiful black & white about the horrors inflicted by the Japanese in 1937 after they conquered the former Chinese capital Na -
Civilian Victims of Military Brutality
John Magee | 20' | USA | None
Nanjing, 1937: Scenes from a hospital, images of the wounded and the dying within it. One of the 20th century’s most important pieces of film.… -
Complex
Eitan Efrat, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Daniel Mann | 9' | Israel | None
Seven former members of an army unit re-unite on a lonely parking lot one night: to re-enact their drill for entering a building complex. Screened… -
Dead of Night
Bob Clark | 90' | Canada | None
Andy is back from Vietnam, as his parents always knew he would be – and that note the Army sent about his death must have… -
The Eight Hundred Heroes
Ying Yunwei | 53' | China | None
800 soldiers of the 88th regiment against what feels like the whole of Japan’s Imperial Army – think Thermopylae, Chinese version. A splendid, visuall -
L’ennemi intime
Florent Emilio Siri | 111' | France | None
The first somewhat bigger combat film on the Algerian War since the late 70s, which broke a few taboos about the French army’s conduct. A…