04 Nov 2022
Cavewoman
During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides’s Electra.
A Distant Shore: African Americans on D-Day
The role of African American soldiers during the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy.
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