Movies

A man who refused to touch a weapon became one of the most important people on one of the most brutal battlefields of World War II. Not despite his pacifism but because of it. Based on a true story, and you feel that weight the entire time. Sometimes the most useful person in the room is the one who decided what they stood for and never moved. Fun fact : the movie is actually a toned down version of the accomplishements of Doss. In the movie making Andrew Garfield needed a cable to help pulling the wounded soldiers (he asked it after struggling to move THE FIRST GUY). Doss however WAS SHOT IN THE LUNG before the night. HE DID IT ALL WITH ONE FUNCTIONNING LUNG!!!!

A group of North African soldiers joins the French Army during World War II, fighting through some of the war's most brutal campaigns while facing discrimination from the very country they are risking their lives to defend. Rather than focusing on generals or grand strategy, Indigènes follows ordinary men as they build friendships, endure loss, and struggle for recognition. It's a war film filled with courage, sacrifice, and frustration, but above all, it's a deeply human story about dignity and belonging. Hundreds of thousands of men from French colonies crossed the Mediterranean to liberate a country that paid them less, fed them less, and remembered them not at all. They fought the same war, in the same mud, next to men who would go home to pensions and monuments. They went home to nothing. This film told their story for the very first time. It came out in 2006, got shown at Cannes, and something rare happened, people actually did something about it. The French government, embarrassed into action, revalued the pensions of surviving veterans from former colonies and integrated their story into the history books we teach to our children. Real people. Real money. History. A film changed that, this film. Not a protest, not a lawsuit, a film.