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American Revolutionary War: 2006 Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man: Robin Shuffield Documentary: Revolution, Burkina Faso: 2007 Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation: Charles Burnett: Historical drama: Namibian War of Independence: 2007 The War on Democracy: John Pilger: Historical drama: US Imperialism: 2008 Baler: Mark Meily: Historical drama ...
French film about the contribution of colonial French North Africa's soldiers during the Second World War. Dawn of the Damned: 1966 French-shot film footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The Descendants: 2011 A Honolulu-based attorney and the sole trustee of a family trust of 100 km 2 of pristine land on Kauai. El ...
Nations were new to cinema and its capability to spread and influence mass sentiment at the start of World War I.The early years of the war were experimental in regard to using films as a propaganda tool, but eventually became a central instrument for what George Mosse has called the "nationalization of the masses" as nations learned to manipulate emotions to mobilize the people for a national ...
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. A, D 1937 US Street of Shadows: Mademoiselle Docteur: G. W. Pabst: During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German ...
Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism. [1] [2]In the classical age of conquest moral justification for territorial expansion at the direct expense of another established polity (who often faced displacement, subjugation, slavery, rape and execution) was often as unapologetic as "because we can" treading on the philosophical ...
The Great War. USA: Public Broadcasting System. "WWI Timeline". National Wwi Museum and Memorial. USA: National World War I Museum. "World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial.
During World War I, both nations fought on the Allied side. With the cooperation of its ally Great Britain, Japan's military took control of German bases in China and the Pacific , and in 1919 after the war, with U.S. approval, was given a League of Nations mandate over the German islands north of the equator, with Australia getting the rest.
Imperialism before World War I had been on the rise since the mid-nineteenth century because industrialization had caused a growing need for natural resources. Regions like Africa and India had been settled by European countries in order to make profit and extend power. [ 2 ]