Region: Asia
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- Director: Özhan Eren, Murat Saraçoglu
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: Turkey
It is winter in the Caucasus Mountains, and the only people left in a village able to carry aid to besieged Ottoman soldiers are the children.
1915 Armenian Genocide
- Director: Mark Bedrosian
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: United States
In addition to reforming the Ottoman constitution, the political group known as the Young Turks embarked upon a planned destruction of the Christian Armenian population of Turkey in what is now widely agreed to be one of the first modern acts of genocide and the second-most studied Holocaust.
5 Broken Cameras
- Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
- Release Date: 2011
- Production Country: France, Israel, Palestine
Given a video camera when his son is born, Burnat records his son's life as he grows up alongside the concrete barrier the Israeli government is constructing through the middle of their land. One day Burnat is filming the first steps of his child and the next catching the violent retaliation of the Israeli guards to the Palestinian villagers' non-violent protest to being separated from their ancestral lands.
5 Days of War (5 Days of August)
- Director: Renny Harlin
- Release Date: 2011
- Production Country: United States
A United States film crew visits a friend in Georgia, suspecting that something may be brewing, only to find themselves caught in the cross-fire when Georgia moves against separatist groups and the Russians step in to help out the separatists.
500 Years Later
- Director: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
The people of Africa, scattered all over the globe after 500 years of colonial and imperial encounters, struggle still for equality in education, in opportunity, in prosperity. This is their story.
55 Days at Peking
- Director: Nicholas Ray
- Release Date: 1963
- Production Country: United States
Europeans from different backgrounds and various factions unite to defend themselves from the Siege of the International Legations in Peking (Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion.
9 Rota (9th Company)
- Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: Finland, Russia, Ukraine
A group of young soldiers attend bootcamp in a foreign but friendly valley in Uzbekistan, but the most important lesson they learn in getting ready for their tour of duty in Afghanistan may be the tragic fate of the soldiers who they replaced. Trapped in a brutal firefight against a much larger force of local mujahideen, the young men had to rely on their own wits and courage to save them when their pleas for aid went unheeded by their commanders.
A Decent Factory (Nokia: A Decent Factory)
- Director: Thomas Balmès
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: United Kingdom, Finland, France, Denmark, Australia
Employees of the Finnish company, Nokia, travel to the Chinese factory where their products are made to investigate human rights abuses, where they find some problems but apparently nothing really to write home (or make a movie) about.
A Hill in Korea (Hell in Korea)
- Director: Julian Amyes
- Release Date: 1956
- Production Country: United Kingdom
A group of young, inexperienced British soldiers is cut off from Allied lines and trapped between advancing groups of Chinese soldiers—all that before the United States Air Force accidentally bombs their location. The British sergeant is determined to do his duty and follow orders, as well as to get his men back alive.
A Rumor of War
- Director: Richard T. Heffron
- Release Date: 1980
- Production Country: United States
Lt. Philip Caputo is sent to Vietnam with the first American troops, believing that this will be nothing more than a small and insignificant war. During his tour of duty, Caputo is transferred from the front lines to a post where he documents the casualties for both sides before being returned to the front, discovering along the way how very wrong his original assessment was—and how very different this war is from any the United States has fought before.
Action in Arabia
- Director: Léonide Moguy
- Release Date: 1944
- Production Country: United States
An American reporter in Damascus, while seeking information about his friend's murder, manages to fend off 'dangerous women' and 'sinister Arabs,' and to foil a Nazi plot to unite the Arab tribes against Allied interests.
Adaminte Makan Abu (Abu, Son of Adam)
- Director: Salim Ahmed
- Release Date: 2011
- Production Country: India
As old-fashioned and out-of-date as the folk medicines he occasionally sells, Abu ekes out an existence with his wife, yet they still focus on their one remaining goal: to make the Haj pilgrimage. However, Abu's insistence on paying for their trip the old-fashioned way—entirely from their own funds and without assistance from helpful neighbors—may be the undoing of all his dreams.
Air Force
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Release Date: 1943
- Production Country: United States
The crew of a B-17 flying fortress sacrifice life and limb while performing heroic acts as part of the early Allied war efforts in the Pacific.
Alexander
- Director: Oliver Stone
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: Germany, United States, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Italy
Alexander sets out from Macedonia to conquer the world and succeeds.
Alexander the Great
- Director: Robert Rossen
- Release Date: 1956
- Production Country: United States, Spain
Alexander reminds the Greeks his father conquered them, then assumes position at the head of their army to set out and conquer the world.
Alyonka
- Director: Boris Barnet
- Release Date: 1961
- Production Country: Soviet Union
Traveling together, Russians returning from the Kazakh steppes bond over shared hardships, triumphs, and the journey home itself.
Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa (The Legend of Suram Fortress)
- Director: Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze
- Release Date: 1984
- Production Country: Soviet Union
A group of Georgians build a fortress to protect themselves from the invading Muslim army, but the walls cannot be completed without great sacrifice.
Amigo
- Director: John Sayles
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: United States
Rafael's village is occupied by United States troops and his brother a leader of the local guerrilla troops, so Rafael finds himself facing impossible choices as both sides threaten to destroy his village if he does not cooperate with each side's plans.
An Inconvenient Truth
- Director: Davis Guggenheim
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: United States
Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore embarks upon a campaign to make global warming an issue that can no longer be ignored by the industrialized world.
An Islamic History of Europe
- Director: Paul Sapin
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: United Kingdom
The landscape of medieval Europe was the dynamic space in which Muslim kingdoms and the Ottoman Empire provided the seeds of science and learning that led to the European Renaissance.