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Return to Dresden
1986, director: Martin Duckworth
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No More Hiroshima
1984, director: Martin Duckworth
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A War Story
1981, director: Anne Wheeler
When Singapore fell to Japan in February 1942, Churchill...
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A War Story
1981, director: Anne Wheeler
About 140,000 Allied soldiers became Japanese prisoners of...
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A War Story
1981, director: Anne Wheeler
Over 30,000 Allied soldiers died in Japanese prisoner-of-war...
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Bravery in the Field
1979, director: Giles Walker
Canadian transport squadrons took part in WWII airlifts over...
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Bravery in the Field
1979, director: Giles Walker
An aimless young hood gains insight into the experience of...
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Memorandum
1965, director: Donald Brittain, John Spotton
The Nazis regarded Jews, Roma and certain other minorities...
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Bravery in the Field
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Excerpt  (2:13) 1979, director: Giles Walker
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Canadian transport squadrons took part in WWII airlifts over Burma, a British colony that had been invaded by Japan in 1942. In the war's final weeks a crew of six Canadian airmen went missing in action. Their fate remained a mystery until 1990. Actor Christopher Plummer sets the scene for dramatic journey of discovery into the past.

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Tommy is a veteran of World War II. He rooms alone, waiting for his pension cheque to arrive, passing the time in the evenings with his cronies in the Legion Hall. Lennie can claim only a third of Tommy's years, but he prowls the same area of town, and, surprisingly enough, they have more in common than either of them realizes. Bravery in the Field portrays the frustrations and hostilities of these two men whose lives lack a sense of place and purpose. The story occurs early in November and leads up to an event that provides one of Tommy's few remaining moments of glory: the annual veterans' Remembrance Day parade.