James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre

After 45 years, Hugo Gryn returns to his hometown, Berehovo, in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains. It is a glimpse of a time when half the town was Jewish and evokes the world of Hugo's childhood.

Johnny Lincoln Clem was a small boy from Newark, Ohio living during a troubled time in the American Civil War. Shortly after his mother was killed while crossing a railroad track, Johnny ran away from home to join the 22nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Initially turned away by the officers, the boy followed the regiment into Kentucky and down south, and was looked after by the men. Finally accepted into their ranks, he fought with them at the battle of Chickamauga, where to save his life he was forced to shoot down a charging Confederate Colonel who had him in his sights. His story became legend across the country, appearing in newspapers and song, and this fame brought Johnny the honor of becoming the youngest non-commissioned officer ever in the United States Army when General George Thomas promoted the boy to the rank of Lance Sergeant and personal courier to his staff. Captured once and wounded twice on the field of battle, he was finally sent back home just before the eve of the war to return to his family.

Exploring the history and adventures of Napoleon Bonaparte in the lead up to and Napoleon's actual Battle of the Nile, where most of the French fleet was destroyed by Great Britain's greatest admiral, Horatio Nelson, in 1798.

War Passenger is a film about David Axe, a South Carolina resident who walked away from his family, friends, and career to travel to Iraq in 2005. Armed with only a backpack and a video camera, David embraced his role as a citizen journalist and continued to seek out the world's worst war zones. Since 2005, he has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon, and Chad. During his travels, David began to write autobiographical comic books detailing a life at war where suicide bombers, piracy, and child soldiers were an everyday reality. Utilizing over 100 hours of David's personal video footage, War Passenger takes you to the front lines of the world's conflicts and shows you how hard it is to come back home.

Biography of Ji Hong-Chang, a general of nationalist forces, who was put in custody and killed because of his hostility to Chiang Kai-Shek.

Lea and Mira tells the story of two elderly Polish Jewish women living in Argentina. As children, they were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were imprisoned for two years. Having survived such horror was, in their own words, a miracle. The movie depicts the thoughts of these two women who, in the twilight of their lives, transmit their wisdom, their resilience, and their particular way of looking at the world and life after trauma and horror. This movie pays homage to life and its power to triumph over death, even in the face of terrible suffering.