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Joyeux Noël (English: Merry Christmas) is a 2005 war drama film based on the Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, British, and German soldiers. It was written and directed by Christian Carion , [ 5 ] and screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival .
After much resistance the mother manages to convince the enemy soldiers to put aside their differences for one night and share a Christmas dinner. The Germans were planning to kill the Americans, but eventually they and the American soldiers share their rations to make a proper Christmas dinner. This includes homemade cookies and other goodies.
The truce is dramatised in the 2005 French film Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas), depicted through the eyes of French, British and German soldiers. [74] The film, written and directed by Christian Carion , was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival , but was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
Such moments of humanity were largely lacking from World War II. But one notable exception occurred during the Battle of the Bulge, when s Op-Ed: A Christmas miracle during the Battle of the Bulge
A Midnight Clear is a 1992 American war drama film written and directed by Keith Gordon, and starring an ensemble cast that features Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, and Arye Gross. It is based on the novel by William Wharton.
Here are Yahoo Entertaiment's picks for the best holiday movies of the 2000s, including Elf, Love Actually and The Holiday. (Photo illustration: Maayan Pearl/Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images ...
Research establishes that German and British soldiers played soccer on the Western Front during a famed World War I Christmas truce. Peace for a day: How soccer brought a brief truce to World War ...
The End of the War (1984), at the end of World War II, a Serbian man takes his son to search for and kill five members of the Croatian Ustaše militia who tortured and killed his wife; A Youth Orchestra (1985) Odlazak ratnika, povratak maršala (1986), TV series; Lager Niš (1987), Nazi death camp in Niš, Serbia