Mother at War

BBC - Women at War: 100 Years of Service Series 1 (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 17, 2017

To mark a century since women first took on roles alongside men in the armed forces, five celebrities with a connection to the military experience how things have changed in the years since.

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BBC - Royal Wives at War (2016) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Jan. 10, 2016

A revealing new look at the abdication crisis of 1936 through the eyes of the two women at its very heart. In a series of dramatised monologues set in 1967, Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Wallis Simpson look back at the dramatic events which led to King Edward VIII giving up the throne for the woman he loved. Combining drama reconstructions, archive footage and a chorus of acquaintances and biographers, Royal Wives at War returns to some of the original words and opinions of the two women at the heart of that battle and unravels the story of a frosty relationship between the Queen Mother and Wallis that lasted for decades.

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BBC - Royal Cousins At War (2014) Movies

Posted by vivid23 at Feb. 8, 2014

At the outbreak of the First World War three cousins reigned over Europe's greatest powers - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. This two-part series looks at the role played by the three monarchs, and their relationships with each other, in the outbreak of war, arguing that it is far greater than historians have traditionally believed.

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The Mother of Kings / Matka Królów (1987) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at June 16, 2015

An impoverished widowed mother expecting her fourth child deals with nearly 25 years of political oppression in this stark drama. Lucja Krol (Magda Teresa Wojcik) is befriended by her neighbor, but the communist scholar is soon arrested and jailed. She survives the Depression of the 1930s and narrowly escapes being arrested by Nazis during World War II. Her former neighbor Wiktor becomes a high-ranking official after his arrest but is disgraced when he campaigns for the release of Lucja's son Klemens (Bougslaw Linda) after he too is arrested. Klemens is tortured into a bogus confession and dies at the hands of his captors, who never tell Lucja about the fate of her son. This 1982 film was shelved until 1987 when censorship restrictions became more relaxed in communist Poland.

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Mother (1926) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 4, 2011

Pudovkin's innovative classic about a Russian family shattered by the uprising in 1905. A masterpiece of Russian cinema that established Pudovkin, and rivaled only Eisenstein for supremacy in montage, poetic imagery, and propagandistic ideals. Based on Maxim Gorky's great novel, it's one of cinematic history's seminal works. Striking cinematography, stunning use of montage make this one important.

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Journey for Margaret (1942) Movies

Posted by Notsaint at Nov. 23, 2014

An American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an air raid. Outraged, they visit a shelter for homeless children where they fall in love with orphans Margaret and her brother Peter. They eventaully adopt the children and bring them to America.

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War Horse (2011) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at June 4, 2012

In 1912, a teenage boy named Albert Narracott (Jeremy Irvine) from Devon, England watches the birth of a Bay (horse) Thoroughbred foal and watches with admiration the growth of the young horse, galloping through the fields at his mother's side. Much to the dismay of his mother Rose (Emily Watson), his father Ted (Peter Mullan) buys the…

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War Horse (2011) Movies

Posted by a_l_chemist at April 20, 2012

Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on.

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The Civil War S01E03 - Forever Free: 1862 (1990) Movies

Posted by ParRus at April 28, 2015

The Civil War S01E03 - Forever Free: 1862

DVDRip | English | MKV | 720 x 480 | AVC ~1200 Kbps | 23.976 fps
AC-3 | 448 kbps | 32.0 KHz | 6 channels | 1h 15mn | 1.08 GB

Genre: Documentary, War, History

This episode charts the dramatic events that led to Lincoln’s decision to set the slaves free. Convinced by July 1862 that emancipation was now morally and militarily crucial to the future of the Union, Lincoln must wait for a victory to issue his proclamation. But as the year wears on there are no Union victories to be had, thanks to the brilliance of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. The episode comes to a climax in September 1862 with Lee’s invasion of Maryland. On the banks of Antietam Creek, the bloodiest day of the war takes place, followed shortly by the brightest: the emancipation of the slaves.

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The Civil War S01E06 - Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864 (1990) Movies

Posted by ParRus at May 2, 2015

The Civil War S01E06 - Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864

DVDRip | English | MKV | 720 x 480 | AVC ~1200 Kbps | 23.976 fps
AC-3 | 448 kbps | 48.0 KHz | 6 channels | 1h 09mn | 1006 MB

Genre: Documentary, War, History

Episode six begins with a biographical comparison of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other from the wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia. In 30 days, the two armies lose more men than both sides have lost in three years of war. With Grant and Lee finally deadlocked at Petersburg, we visit the ghastly hospitals north and south and follow General Sherman's Atlanta campaign through the mountains of north Georgia. As the horrendous casualty lists increase, Lincoln's chances for re-election begin to dim, and with them the possibility of Union victory.

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