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The film is based on the 1934 novel The Standard by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, previously turned into a 1935 film My Life for Maria Isabella in Nazi Germany. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Scharff. Location shooting took place in Vienna and Toledo province in Spain.
A knight (Jan I van Brabant) flying a heraldic flag in battle, in addition to the heraldic device displayed on his shield (Codex Manesse, c. 1304). A war ensign, also known as a military flag, battle flag, or standard, [1] is a variant of a national flag for use by a country's military forces when on land.
Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II.It was originally written for American soldiers to help them understand why the United States was involved in the war, but US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered distribution for public viewing.
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis.It is based on the 2000 book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the after effects of ...
Flag Wars is a 2003 American documentary film about the conflict between two communities during the gentrification of a Columbus, Ohio neighborhood. Filmed in a cinéma vérité style, the film is an account of the tension between the two historically oppressed communities of African-Americans and gays in Columbus' Olde Towne East neighborhood. [1]
The 2005 documentary film Two Days in October is based on the book and aired as part of the PBS series American Experience, [2] winning a Peabody Award. [3] In the UK, it was broadcast by BBC Four as How Vietnam Was Lost as part of the channel's Storyville series.
The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II.
In the autumn of 1864 remnants of the Confederate 5th Georgia Cavalry are prisoners of war in the Union prison camp at Rock Island, Illinois.Sick and dying in deplorable conditions, they find a chance for survival when Union Captain Mark Bradford offers them release from "this stinking pesthole" [3] if they will join the Union Army to garrison a fort on the Western frontier, undermanned ...