25 Apr 2006
Kokoda
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.
Karski & The Lords of Humanity
The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.
Top Billed Cast
Jan Karski Self (archive footage)
Сергей Юрский Jan Karski (voice)
Владимир Познер E. Thomas Wood (voice)
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