War

Logline: In 1914, a group of German teenagers volunteer for action on the Western Front. Paul Baumer is a sensitive youth, but is persuaded to join up by a war-mongering professor advocating glory for the Fatherland. Paul and his friends are trained under Himmelstoss, a kindly postmaster turned brutal corporal, and then sent to the front lines to taste battle, blood and death.

Logline: Centers on Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim British Special Operations Executive agent and the first female radio operator, who is sent into occupied France during WWII to aid the French Resistance, a mission that would lead to her being betrayed, given to the Germans, and killed. Years later, she would be posthumously awarded the George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

Logline: True story, set in 1940, follows French General Philippe Leclerc, as he leads his one remaining artillery battery up against an elite Italian special forces battalion fortified in a fort, on the verge of the Nazi’s winning the war. The battle, some saw as a suicide mission, left Leclerc’s unit the victors, and was one of the first major steps in defeating the Nazis.

Logline: A hundred years in the future, archaeologists piece together events from the U.S. occupation of Iraq from found footage from CNN and old digital camcorders. These include a male U.S. soldier falling in love with a male Iraqi insurgent, and their efforts to the end the occupation by assassinating President George W. Bush.

Logline: Set in an alternative 1944 where Russia has fallen to Nazi Germany and the D-Day landings have failed, and Germany now occupying Britain, a group of Welsh villagers wake to discover that their husbands have mysteriously disappeared.

LOGLINE: Story centers on the pivotal 1950 Korean war battle of Chosin Reservoir, in which 12,000 American troops fought a 120,000-man Chinese force in sub-zero temperatures.

Logline: On November 6, 1964, U.S. Army pilot Daniel Dawson went Missing In Action after Viet Cong soldiers shot down his L-19 surveillance plane. Three weeks later, his younger brother Don, a 24-year-old boat captain, left his job, his family and friends, emptied his bank account, and traveled to Vietnam to rescue his brother–or bring his body home to his widow and four children.

Logline: An epic love story set against WWII and the final years of China’s civil war prior to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.

Logline: Follows the true story of Lawrence Anthony, a South African game preserve owner who snuck into Iraq after the war began in 2003 and rescued the animals in the Baghdad Zoo.

Logline: Story follows the surprise assault on Baghdad – one of the most decisive battles in American combat history – by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, who in three days of bloody warfare ended the Iraqi war.

Logline: Centers on Desmond T. Doss who won the Congressional Medal of Honor, despite refusing to bear arms during WWII on religious grounds. Doss was drafted and ostracized by fellow soldiers for his pacifist stance. But he was no coward. Doss saved 75 men in the Battle of Okinawa, without firing a shot.