Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and intense fighting lasting more than a month turned the city, its docks, its arsenal, into ashes. Thousands of workers will build it up again, brick by brick. But with awful work conditions protests quickly arise and a strike begins. Violent confrontations happen during manifestations. Until one man falls. The next day René Vautier lands at Brest clandestinely to make a movie about the movement.

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A story about a fictional South African police base on the border between Angola and the former Sout...

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Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

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September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...