Thunderbolt

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politi...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Robert Markowitz

Cast

Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and ev...

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

John Kent Harrison

Cast

Anna Paquin, Goran Višnjić, Michelle Dockery

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, h...

Runtime

3h 24m

Director

Masaki Kobayashi

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Kon Ichikawa

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni, Shōji Yasui, Jun Hamamura

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

Runtime

1h 41m

Cast

Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes