Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000 people dead and a quarter of the city eradicated. Unlike their loved ones, Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka and Minoru Tsukiyama managed to emerge from the bombings. Now in their twilight years, they wish for nothing more than recognition and reparations for those who, like them, had been indelibly harmed by the war – but the Japanese government and even their fellow citizens seem disinclined to acknowledge the past.

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

A look at legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.

Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, g...

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...

In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, ...

TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its ...

Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in hi...

What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like ob...

The Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement, paved the way for Hong Kong’s curr...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...
This short documentary produced by the University of Oregon Multimedia Journalism graduate program e...

Go behind the scenes with the crew of Sea Lions of the Galapagos to showcase not just the production...

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to ...

Documentary film about the making of Arttu Haglund's feature film Gone.

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously...