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Children of War premiered in November 2009 at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. The International Reporting Project co-hosted the screening. In December 2009, it had a special presentation at the historic Hollywood Egyptian Theater as part of the 6th Annual International Artivist Film Festival, where it won the Best Feature Award for Child Advocacy.
The similarity between the hellish, cinéma vérité stylised battle scenes of the film and current news and documentary coverage of the Iraq War, is noted by film critic Manohla Dargis, describing Cuarón's fictional landscapes as "war zones of extraordinary plausibility". [80]
However, for a majority of the children, the end of the war produced even more sorrow. Although most of the world's population rejoiced in the downfall of Hitler and the Nazi domination, the “hidden children” had to cope with the unpleasant reality that their parents were dead and that they would not be reunited as a family.
It’s the film that started the Netflix original movie storm. Beasts of No Nation, directed by Cary Fukunaga, follows Abu (Abraham Attah), a child soldier fighting in a civil war in an unnamed ...
The Netflix documentary details the ... at the time of the crash — is explored in Netflix’s The Lost Children. The documentary premiered on Nov. 14 and showed viewers how the children stayed ...
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a 2000 documentary film about the British rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to Great Britain.
Father Soldier Son is a 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis. It follows the family of Brian Eisch, a Sgt. First Class in the United States Army, and the effects of his deployment to the War in Afghanistan has on him and his young sons. The film was released on July 17, 2020, by Netflix.
The Lost Children is Netflix's latest documentary — a true story about how four children survived a plane that crashed in the Amazon rainforest in Colombia on May 1, 2023. The documentary ...