A chronicle of the tempestuous campaign trail rivalry between Labour Party leader Ad Melkert and flamboyant newcomer Pim Fortuyn, as they go head-to-head leading up to the Netherlands’ 2002 general elections.
When Sakuragi Haruko's father's factory is bombed, Oba Hiroto stops Haruko when she tries to rescue her father from the fire. They meet again a few years later when Haruko is working as a nurse and Hiroto is brought in as a patient with a heart condition. The second couple is a Korean man, Boku Hitoshi, and another nurse, Yamada Kazue
Gottschalk and Wenstrup are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries.
Capturing the spirit of the age and the turmoil of the times, Sword of Honour tells the heartbreaking story of a nation at war, the soldiers who left their families to fight, the social upheaval and the emotionally perilous journey back home.
Spywatch is a story produced by the BBC as part of the Look and Read series. It originally aired from January to March 1996. Its main educational focus was World War II.
During Japan’s occupation of Northeast China, over 3,000 civilians and POWs are forced into brutal labor at a secret camp on Moon Island. As failed escape attempts mount, two prisoners lead a daring, coordinated breakout plan, risking everything for freedom.
All Costs Paid is a Soviet TV miniseries produced by Studio Ekran. The director Aleksei Saltykov well known for his film The Chairman with Mikhail Ulyanov, an acclaimed Russian actor playing a main character. All Costs Paid is one of the first Soviet feature films that shows the war in Afghanistan. Film has unusually truthful point of view on that period of Soviet Era and on the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
In the year 2200 AD, the two major powers in the Earth's orbit, "Xuan Yue" and "Su Yue," ended their more than 50-year Cold War and were about to sign the "Dual Moon Peace Agreement." However, a series of terrorist attacks suddenly occurred in Xuan Yue's circular colonial city called "New Moon City," indicating that fragile human civilization is once again facing a great crisis.
After a military operation of limited operation, six Croatian soldiers (Prka, Sikira, Nervoza, Gradski, Delon and Pape) remained behind the enemy lines for 10 days before being cut off from the enemy lines. Soldiers have not known each other all their lives and have been brought together by war. People of different profiles meet.
The series follows Yu Rim, a Korean expatriate in the United Kingdom working as a journalist, who is ordered by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to proceed to Seoul and gather intelligence on the United States Forces Korea.
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
Tang Lin, a young journalist accompanies Zhang Gui, a war veteran, on a journey to return a fallen comrade’s belongings to his family, uncovering decades-old promises and gaining a profound understanding of the sacrifices behind the peace and happiness of today.
The series captures the story of Kashmir, highlighting the events leading up to the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in the 90s, the abrogation of Article 370, and its impact on the former state.