donderdag 23 december 2010

Errol Flynn - Objective Burma

Genre:.....................WWII Film
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................2Hr22mins
Size:........................1.32Gb

A war picture, ahead of its time, that should be celebrated alongside other classics. Flynn heads a group of paratroopers who find themselves stranded in the Japanese-occupied Burmese jungle. With few supplies, they face a long walk back to safety. Flynn’s performance is restrained and powerful, starting off as a charismatic leader, progressing to a man who sees his friends butchered by the Japanese, struggling to keep his composure.

woensdag 22 december 2010

Errol Flynn - The Dawn Patrol

Genre:.....................WWI Film
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................1Hr43mins
Size:........................701Mb

Major Brand, the commanding officer of a squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps stationed in France, has been called a butcher by his top officer, Captain Courtney, because of his hardened attitude toward sending inexperienced young flyers to their death. Courtney and his best friend, Lieutenant Scott, have their own way of coping with the constant death of new recruits; they drink a toast to the dead, sing a song, and then go back to devising diverting, thrill-seeking pranks. When German ace flyer Von Richter taunts the men from his plane, Courtney and Scott seize the opportunity to steal two planes and bomb the enemy camp. Brand is furious at their insubordination, but when the news arrives that they have destroyed the German camp, their devil-may-care attitude is forgiven.


dinsdag 21 december 2010

the Polish Battle of Britain

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour - B&W
Runtime:..................48mins
Size:........................574Mb

This dramatised documentary recounts how, during the most decisive phase of the Battle of the Britain, a single squadron of 34 Polish fighter pilots wreaked havoc on the Luftwaffe, in the process helping to change the course of history and overturning RAF prejudices.From 303 Squadron's bitter struggle for acceptance when they first arrived in the UK, to the crucial part they played in averting the German invasion, and their ultimate betrayal by the Allies, this unknown story is one of the most extraordinary episodes of World War II.


maandag 20 december 2010

Churchill`s Island

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................20mins
Size:........................144Mb

This film presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationship of the various forces that went to make up the island's defences. Here is the Royal Air Force in its epic battle with the Luftwaffe, the Navy in its stubborn fight against the raiders of sea and sky, the coastal defences, the mechanized cavalry, the merchant seamen and behind them all, Britain's tough,
unbending civilian army.


zondag 19 december 2010

vrijdag 17 december 2010

Jasenovac

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................Slavic - English Subs
Picture:...................B&W - Colour
Runtime:..................51mins
Size:........................796Mb

After seizing power, the Ustaša authorities erected numerous concentration camps in Croatia between 1941 and 1945. These camps were used to isolate and murder Jews, Serbs, Roma (also known as Gypsies), and other non-Catholic minorities, as well as Croatian political and religious opponents of the regime. The largest of these centers was the Jasenovac complex, a string of five camps on the bank of the Sava River, about 60 miles south of Zagreb. It is presently estimated that the Ustaša regime murdered between 77,000 and 99,000 people in Jasenovac between 1941 and 1945.


donderdag 16 december 2010

the liberation of Majdanek

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................1Hr02mins
Size:........................592Mb

Majdanek was unique, as the only concentration camp still operational at the time of its liberation.The concentration and extermination camp Majdanek, near Lubin, was erected in 1941, and liberated on July 23rd 1944. The speed of the
Soviet advance gave the Germans no time to destroy or conceal evidence of the atrocities they had committed.


woensdag 15 december 2010

Origins of the Holocaust

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour - B&W
Runtime:..................46mins
Size:........................1.09Gb

As the French evacuated Paris in June 1940, amateur filmmakers documented the exodus as thousands lined the roads with their families and most precious possessions. As the British sifted through the rubble, people grabbed cameras to capture what it meant to stand up to Hitler throughout the Blitz. And as the Nazi army slogged through the mud and snow of Soviet Russia on the way to Moscow, soldiers used 8mm cameras to film the hardships of the war as they experienced it. This was not the stock, newsreel or propaganda footage from World War II that authorities approved and audiences became accustomed to seeing. This was provocative and sometimes disturbing footage taken by those who witnessed the war first-hand. This was the footage deemed ‘unfit’ for civilians to see. At the end of the war, this and other “Top Secret” footage of the war’s destruction was stashed away and forgotten.


maandag 13 december 2010

Hitlers Secret Science

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour - B&W
Runtime:..................45mins
Size:........................1.09Gb

Hitler and Nazi Germany were heavily invested in science, using their many brilliant scientists to work on development of ingenious new forms of weaponry computer technology and magnetic tape, a scary array of bombs and they experimented with time.


zondag 12 december 2010

the 25th Hour

Genre:.....................WWII Film
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour
Runtime:..................1Hr53mins
Size:........................700Mb

At the time of the German invasion of Romania in 1939 Johann Moritz, a simple peasant, is falsely branded as a Jew and sent to a German labor camp. The man responsible for the deportation is Nicolai Dobresco, a district police officer who covets Johann's wife, Suzanna. Suzanna successfully wards off Dobresco's advances, but later she is forced to divorce Johann in order to save their home from being confiscated as Jewish property. Eighteen months later Johann escapes from the labor camp to Hungary, but Jewish refugee organizations refuse to help him because he insists that he is not a Jew. Eventually, he is captured and, ironically, selected by a Nazi colonel as the perfect example of "racially pure German stock." He is forced to pose for photographs used on the covers of magazines circulated throughout occupied Europe.


Kleine Kriegshefte - PDF


vrijdag 10 december 2010

Fabrik der Officiere

Genre:.....................WWII Film
Language:.................German - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................1Hr32mins
Size:........................699Mb

In the last year of World War II, at a German Army training school for officers, a fatal accident occurs. In charge of the investigation, Lieutenant Krafft (Helmut Griem) concludes very quickly that this is due to an accident instead of a murder. His next move will be difficult, but blocked by the very different Bewegründe and political orientations of the responsible officers and headed in other directions. His own career and his future are in jeopardy. The veracity of the Lieutenant Krafft becomes a matter of conscience for all concerned.


donderdag 9 december 2010

Westfront 1918

Genre:.....................WWI Film
Language:.................German - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................1Hr26mins
Size:........................696Mb

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes homeon leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.


dinsdag 7 december 2010

Lost Evidence - Alamein

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour - B&W
Runtime:..................45mins
Size:........................349Mb

In the fall of 1942, in the remote North African desert, British and Allied troops face the feared German Afrika Korps and their Italian Allies. The British were pushed back nearly 1000 miles from Libya, to a little known Egyptian railway stop called El Alamein. Over the following nine days, this battle became a personal duel between General Bernard Montgomery and General Erwin Rommel. Only by brazenly pulling off one of the greatest deceptions of the war, the British fooled the Germans into making a catastrophic mistake.


Lost Evidence - Saipan

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour - B&W
Runtime:..................44mins
Size:........................349Mb

Seven American battleships and 11 destroyers shelled Saipan and Tinian for 2 days before the landings, firing 15000 16-inch and 5-inch shells at the islands along with 165000 other shells of other caliber. To even begin to comprehend the magnitude of this onslaught, one needs to realize that a single 16-inch round weighs slightly more than a Volkswagen Beetle, besides being packed with high explosives. On the second day of the bombardment, this force was joined by 8 more battleships, 6 heavy cruisers and 5 light cruisers. The islands were ringed by American warships with their guns blazing. Shells rained down on the island, its villages, inhabitants, and defenders, gouging huge craters in the sand and coral. The earth trembled under the tremendous explosions of naval bombardment and simultaneous air attacks.


maandag 6 december 2010

Lost Evidence - Guam

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour - B&W
Runtime:..................44mins
Size:........................367Mb

On 21st July 1944, American Marines and GIs invaded the island of Guam. Over the next 21 days, this Japanese stronghold in the Mariana islands would become a bitter and bloody battlefield as American forces fought to expel nearly 19,000 Japanese troops from their heavily defended positions.
This film offers an unprecedented viewpoint of the famous battle. Aerial photographs taken of the island during the war have now been layered over a three-dimensional contour map to create a CGI model of the island. But this is no computer game. This is a model of the actual island as the battle raged.


zondag 5 december 2010

vrijdag 3 december 2010

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................59mins
Size:........................600Mb

The tragic story of the atomic bombing of 2 Japanese islands during World War II and the death of half a million people and two cities in a split second flash !


donderdag 2 december 2010

Fury in the Pacific

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W
Runtime:..................54mins
Size:........................600Mb

December 7, 1941. The date that will live in infamy. It is the day of the early morning surprise attack upon the Honolulu-basedAmerican fleet by the Japanese. Some 2.400 men died that morning as six of eight ships plunged to the watery depths below.


woensdag 1 december 2010

American Experience - Bataan Rescue

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour - B&W
Runtime:..................55mins
Size:........................751Mb

In late 1941, tens of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers fought a desperate battle to defend the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines from the Japanese. When they lost, they were marched to prison camps in sweltering heat through mosquito-infested jungles with little or no food or water. Three years later, with the war in the Pacific coming to an end, only 500 men in the Cabanatuan camp had survived. Fearing the Japanese would murder their captives before the U.S. Army could liberate the camp, the Americans sent an elite Ranger battalion to rescue the prisoners. The rangers sneaked 30 miles behind enemy lines and with the help of courageous Filipino resistance fighters, they mounted an astonishing rescue that was fraught with danger, yet ultimately triumphant.