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A moving documentary about human strength, solidarity, and hope that sheds light on a rescue operation during the end of WW2. The film tells the story of how the courage of a few people saved 20,000 lives from the cruelty of the Nazis.

In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Sixty-five years later their story has finally been told.

In the first year after the war in Bosnia, Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows several people in their personal aftermaths.

A nineteen year old from Munich ,bedazzled by a political idea,sets off to war in Croatia, part of the former Yugoslavia, and becomes a mercenary killer.

The Romans dispersed the Jews from Judaea in 70 AD; Islam became the religion of Palestine 1300 years ago. The film focuses on Gaza and the West Bank where soldiers and youths are caught up in the Intefada, and on the clash of history and ideas in regions to which both peoples have historical claims. The film intersperses in-the-street footage with interviews with academics, journalists, soldiers, artists, family members of prisoners, and victims of violence. With emphasis on the lives of the refugees and settlers, and following a "Golani" platoon of Israeli soldiers led by Lt. Kobi Motiv, the film dramatizes the irreconcilable positions of many on both sides.

This is Susan Sontag's documentary about Israel, shot during the Yom Kippur war. Much of it is strictly observational.