The Spirit of '43

Seven Lost

July 2022 •English

An American troop stranded in the Italian wilderness, struggle to find their way back to safety during World War 2.

Alias

Invalid date •Italian

Teach Me

January 2002 •English

Bizarre and adult animation with two frogs.

Peace

Invalid date •English

Animated short made for MTV.

The Bored Billionaire

October 1963 •English

Casper saves a billionaire from a witch.

Where the Ravens Fly

September 2024 •English

Set in the dense forests of 1940s Eastern Europe, this story reveals the supernatural encounters that challenge three soldiers' understanding of life and death.

Maakies: A Battle at Sea

January 2003 •English

One of three short animated films based on the comic strip.

Birdbeat (Fugue)

January 2002 •English

Birds of many feathers peck and flap in synchronization, their prosaic behaviour transformed into music and visual rhythms that together add up to one interesting movie.

Erin, Owen and the Loch Ness Monster

Invalid date •English

ERIN, OWEN, AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER: Scottish siblings, Erin, and Owen MacDonald, escape the clutches of bullies to barely make it on time for their father's Loch Ness tour boat and they think the day will be uneventful. Little do they know that they will be swept off the tour boat, swallowed by the Loch Ness Monster, and brought to the land of Mythatania, where all creatures heard of in myth and folklore have gone to escape the outside world.

Beast of War

September 2025 •English

When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.

Ambush

January 1980 •Russian

The action takes place in Russia during the Second World War. One of the heroes - Kryukov - serves the Germans, the second - Eliseev - fights against the German occupiers.

Beast

January 2018 •French

A lonely fisherman's wait. Over the horizon against the expanse of the sea, time passes. Something gradually overwhelms the waiting man. We then discover that he's unstable, fragile and sadly violent. As he suffocates from within, colors appear on his skin. And then everything comes to a halt : a woman arrives like an apparition in the water.

The Bloody Hundredth

March 2024 •English

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.

Wasps, Geese, Pear-tree

June 2005 •Hungarian

The chalk-drawing animated film is based on Richard Brautigan’s novel: „Revenge of the lawn”. This is a remembrance, the story of a childhood memory about grandma’ and grandpa’. After the death of grandpa’, Jack took over the domesticities, and delivered grandma’s bourbon on his truck. Grandma’s whisky served as a salutary refreshment during prohibition times. Her house wore the traces of two accidents. The film tells the story of these accidents.

Under The Ashes

January 1990 •Arabic

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were arrested and interned in "surveillance" camps with more than 2,000 French and foreigners: communist activists, trade unionists, brigadists, Spanish republicans and other opponents of the Vichy regime. The Djenien Bourezg camp is one of these camps, located in southern Algeria and is one of the most formidable. An old activist for the Algerian national cause returns to the scene. He blows away the ashes that cover this part of history. And through it, we discover the hard fight of the camp inmates for respect and human dignity, under a fascist command.

The Tiger

September 2025 •German

In the Eastern Front of World War II in 1943, a five-man crew of a German Tiger tank is sent on a secret mission far behind the fiercely contested front line. Fueled by the Wehrmacht's methamphetamine, their assignment increasingly becomes a journey into the heart of darkness.

The Rat Came Back: The Legend of Raggot

January 1999 •English

Two bored gay lovers, one urban legend and a pet smaller than a hamster lead to this twisted film.

Operation Star

February 2024 •Greek

It is the winter of 1943. Somewhere in central Greece. A captain and a sergeant of the Greek army are the only survivors of a failed sabotage attempt against a German target during World War II. The two men are forced to flee to a village. They are pursued by a platoon of unwanted German army soldiers led by a tough German lieutenant. In the midst of war, a love is born that will change everyone's lives.

The Making of Here Comes Dr. Tran

January 2004 •English

Behind the scenes of the animated short film.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching

July 1926 •English

“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching” features a song that dates back to the Civil War, one which was still familiar to audiences of the 1920s. The cartoon begins as Koko the Clown emerges from an inkwell-- an iconic image for animation buffs --and then steps over to a chalkboard to draw an orchestra. The band, “Koko's Glee Club,” marches to a nearby cinema (accompanied by a dog who beats cymbals with his tail) where they lead the audience in the title song.