S1.E14 ∙ Chacma Baboon

When North Korea invaded South Korea in the early morning hours of June 25, 1950, the United States was plunged into an intense and costly war in order to help stem the tide of communism. The ensuing three-year military conflict included twenty-two countries and resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2 to 4 million civilians and military personnel, including 36,940 American soldiers. Often overshadowed by other world events, the Korean War has fallen into a vast no-man's land in the American psyche, somehow lost between the headiness of World War II and the anguish of Vietnam. According to Max Hastings, one of the leading historians on the Korean War, "United States losses in three years were only narrowly outstripped by those suffered in Vietnam over more than ten." In addition to the immense personal cost, the worldwide political ramifications of the war were huge and are still manifesting themselves even today. Yet the war is one that most Americans would rather forget. Indeed, they have forgotten it. Unfortunately, this has meant that the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has often been overlooked. This film features photographs, documents, and oral history interviews from veterans with Arkansas ties. The interviews allow the veterans to tell about their experiences in their own words. Often poignant and sometimes bittersweet, the oral histories provide a powerful testament to the impact of the war on ordinary Arkansans.

A young woman decides to find her house that she has been deprived of at the age of 4 due to the war. The only chance to get to the occupied area is to cross the border secretly. The border barrier, the natural dividing line, the river Enguri, all add up to the artificially-created wire line by Russian Soldiers. In search of her house, the protagonist explores lives of internally displaced persons for 24 years after the war and sinks into the art of existence that seems to be war, rather than peace. In the process, she meets with so-called 'connectors', who help her get to the occupied territory. The story portrays everlasting estranging damage occupation can bring: how it can eradicate the concept of ' home' and the comforting feeling of safety.

Upon the defeat of Germany, celebrations erupted throughout the western world, especially in the UK and North America. More than one million people celebrated in the streets throughout the UK to mark the end of the European part of the war. In London, crowds massed in Trafalgar Square and up the Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by their daughters and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the balcony of the palace before the cheering crowds. Churchill went from the palace to Whitehall where he addressed another large crowd.

A cine-essay on the life and death of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli woman filmmaker and mother killed in a terrorist act on a kibbutz near the West Bank.