TV series tells about 1918 February 16 Signing of the Lithuanian Independence Act and other historical events that followed this important event in Lithuania until the occupation of Lithuania in 1940.
This is the story of Lieutenant Karl Krafft in the year 1944, when the war was already lost. He was stationed at the Officers Factory. A training school where the cream of the German youth was prepared to fight as soldiers for the fatherland. At the time of his arrival, a murder was committed at this military academy, which was covered up. A crime with political backgrounds, which must be solved by Lieutenant Krafft during the course of the officer training.
The story takes place between 2014 and 2017 and deals with the events of Mosul during the years of its occupation by ISIS. It shows the tragic conditions that the people of Mosul experienced during that era and how the Iraqi Armed Forces, in partnership with the Peshmerga forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces, were able to defeat terrorism.
The year is 1943. Anna Petrova (Katerina Shpitsa) is a combat pilot who was seriously injured. She returned to the rear and works as a leading engineer at an aviation plant, where new Gyrfalcons aircraft are being prepared for testing. The plant's management, unaware of the consequences of her injury, instructs Anna, together with Major Zotov (Alexander Gorbatov), to drive the prototype of the "Gyrfalcon" to the front. In addition to the desire to defeat the enemy and return home with a victory, Anna pursues a personal goal. She is determined to get even with Major Briggel, the German pilot who killed her lover.
They passed intelligence, intercepted communications, stole blueprints and mapped targets. But ultimately they drove the deep-seated paranoia and distrust that would forever change the course of history.
The People’s Republic of China now plays a central role in global politics, economics and diplomacy – more than it ever has before. Its president, Xi Jinping openly espouses the model forged by former Chairman, Mao Zedong, known as the Great Helmsman. But what do we really know about Mao? And how does his legacy relate to Xi’s ‘China Dream’? This 3-part documentary series explores Mao Zedong, his beliefs and his methods. It shows how these have shaped Xi’s philosophy and the reality of today’s China. Mao had set China on the road to true sovereignty, freeing it from the humiliation of foreign domination. Xi is now completing that journey towards the strong Middle Kingdom and cultural predominance that Mao aimed for – while sweeping under the carpet the unthinkable victims and costs of Mao’s rule. The story arc of Mao’s astonishing biography provides varied and profound insights into the ideals, strategies and ambitions of today’s People’s Repub
Filmed over 18 months, this documentary series goes into the heart of the British Army. Through the eyes of the rank and file and the leaders, it shows the challenges of fighting wars when we are not at war.
In Crimea, Ukraine, in 1942, the tide of war seems to be turning, and the Red Army, which had been on the verge of defeat, is gradually gaining ground against the Wehrmacht, which is now in retreat. Then a lieutenant who has escaped from German forced labor, and who according to Stalin's orders should be shot as a traitor, reports on a German secret weapon located close to the front line. A special commando unit, consisting of comrades of the condemned man, investigates and finds children believed to be dead.
Cameraman River Haag travels to war-torn Syria, documenting stories of the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII. After meeting a medical unit of passionate volunteers, River finds himself forced by conscience to use his own military medical training to join the YPG in the fight against ISIS, providing treatment to civilian casualties of war, as well as Kurdish, Arab, and even ISIS fighters.