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Japan Japan marks 72nd anniversary of Hiroshima bombing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led the tributes to victims at a sombre ceremony 06/08/2017
Poland Football fans unfurl provocative World War II banner Polish football fans unveiled a gigantic and provocative banner to mark a key date for the country in World War II. Supporters of Legia Warsaw 03/08/2017
Cinema 'The Lost City of Z' at the Berlin Film Festival They came from ‘The Lost City of Z’ – the film that is to the fervour of the red carpet at the Berlinale. 15/02/2017
Cinema 'Land of Mine' opens door into corner of Danish history Beneath a vast expanse of sand on the Danish coast lie thousands of deadly land mines. 13/02/2017
Cinema New German film addresses Nazi child 'euthanasia' Director Kai Wessel's film 'Fog In August' ('Nebel im August') addresses a dark period in German history - the Nazis' "euthanasia" programme. 10/02/2017
Cinema Ben Affleck stars and directs in the gangster movie 'Live by Night' ‘Live by Night’ holds the mirror up to the prohibition era in America and is based on the 2012 novel of the same name The plot unfolds around the American military veteran and police chief’s son Joe C 13/01/2017
Cinema Actress Natalie Portman is a strong contender for an Oscar for her role in "Jackie" Actress Natalie Portman has become a strong contender for this year’s Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal as former first lady Jackie Kennedy. 06/12/2016
Cinema Pitt and Cotillard versus the Nazis and each other in "Alliance" Alliance" WWII romance that looks for on-screen chemistry between Pitt and Cotillard. 21/11/2016
Cinema Warren Beatty is back after 15 years Hollywood actor and director Warren Beatty is back after fifteen years. 10/11/2016
Cinema Oscar buzz builds for Rebecca Hall in 'Christine' When Florida TV anchor Christine Chubbuck shot herself dead on live TV in 1974 little was known about her. Now there are two films out about her life. 28/10/2016
Cinema 'Hacksaw Ridge' Mel Gibson's homage to a real life superhero Desmond Thomas Doss, conscientious objector and hero 27/10/2016
Cinema Remembering Andrzej Wajda: the voice of Poland Andrzej Wajda, the acclaimed Polish director whose films reflected his country’s turbulent history, has died at the age of 90. 10/10/2016
Cinema Cillian Murphy stars in Nazi-era thriller Irish heartthrobs Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan ('Fifty Shades of Grey') star in WWII thriller 'Anthropoid', based on the real story of a 1942 plan to assassinate a leading Nazi officer. 19/09/2016
Cinema “Neruda” : an unconventional take on Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet For his latest film, “Neruda”, Chilean director, Pablo Larrain, has once again teamed up with the Mexican star, Gael Garcia Bernal. The film follows 18/05/2016
Cinema 'Land of Mine' shines light on 'dark side' of Denmark's war history ‘Land of Mine’ is a Danish-German film, which opens up a rather unknown chapter of World War Two. Directed by Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet, it is a 20/04/2016
Cinema Son of Saul goes for Oscar glory Hungary has only ever once won an Oscar in 1981 when István Szabó‘s “Mephisto” triumphed as Best Foreign Language movie. This year it may have its 15/01/2016
Cinema Finnish movie 'The Fencer' tells tale of 1950s Estonia Set in Estonia in the 1950s, ‘The Fencer’ is the Finnish contender for an Oscar nomination in the Foreign Film category and it has already received a 17/12/2015
Cinema Films out now in Europe Let’s see what out in Europe at the moment. We start with ‘Virgin Mountain’ by Icelandic director Dagur Kári, a bittersweet movie described as a 11/11/2015
Cinema Brooklyn: An Irish girl torn between two lovers and two countries Set in Ireland and America, Brooklyn is the story of young Ellis Lacey, played by Saoirse Ronan, who finds herself torn between two countries and two 13/10/2015
Cinema Domestic violence protestors crash 'Suffragette' London premiere Feminist protesters campaigning against domestic violence stormed the red carpet at the premiere of ‘Suffragette’, which tells the story of British 08/10/2015
Cinema Multi-million dollar Hungarian movie hopes to compete with Hollywood Shooting is underway on the most expensive Hungarian movie of all time. Set during the Hapsburg reprisals after the failed Hungarian revolution of 06/10/2015
Cinema Spielberg's 'Bridge of Spies' co-written by Coen brothers Based on the novel of the same name, Steven Spielberg’s latest movie ‘Bridge of Spies’ stars Tom Hanks as an American lawyer recruited by the 05/10/2015
Cinema Fassbender wows Edinburgh crowd for Macbeth premiere Set in 11th century Scotland and using Shakespeare's original dialogue, the film follows the story of Macbeth whose ambitious wife, played by Marion Cotillard, urges him to kill to in her pursuit of p 01/10/2015
Japan Hundreds rally against security bills as Nagasaki marks bomb anniversary As Nagasaki marks the 70th anniversary of its atomic bombing, hundreds have attended a rally to protest planned security bills, which they say could 09/08/2015
Japan Hiroshima and Nagasaki horrors recalled, undiminished The dropping of atom bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago is given new focus in a special exhibition at American 16/07/2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina Newly-identified Srebrenica victims taken to final resting place A truck carrying coffins with the remains of 136 victims of Europe’s worst mass killing since the Holocaust: the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The 09/07/2015
