Like all Israeli youth, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questions the practices of her country's military, and becomes determined to challenge this rite of passage. Despite her family's political disagreements and personal concerns, she refuses military duty and is imprisoned for her dissent. Her courage moves those around her to reconsider their own moral positions and personal power. OBJECTOR follows Atalya to prison and beyond, offering a unique window into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of a young woman who seeks truth and takes a stand for justice.
Медик американской армии времён Второй мировой войны Десмонд Досс, который служил во время битвы за Окинаву, отказывается убивать людей и становится первым идейным уклонистом в американской истории, удостоенным Медали Почёта.
Будучи призывником в войска Японии военного времени, пацифист борется за то, чтобы сохранить веру в свои идеалы.
Японский пацифист и социалист, неспособный противостоять ужасным последствиям отказа от военной службы по соображениям совести, преображается в результате своих попыток пойти на компромисс с требованиями Японии военного времени.
In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.
Истории четырех мужчин, вынужденных любой ценой отстаивать собственную свободу. Один, примерный семьянин, скрывает тайну от своих близких, а другой должен убить человека, хотя совершенно не представляет как. Третий герой намерен сделать предложение своей девушке, но все меняет неожиданное стечение обстоятельств. Четвертая история рассказывает о враче, предпочитающем полное уединение обществу людей.
Этот фильм посвящен истории жизни американца, героя первой мировой войны Элвина С. Йорка, захватившего во время боя в одиночку 132 немецких солдата. Это событие произошло во время наступления Мойзе-Аргонн во Франции. После этого подвига простой солдат стал одним из самых любимых героев Америки.
История австрийца Франца Егерштеттера, который отказался служить в нацистской армии и был казнен в 1943 году. В 2007 году его причислили к лику блаженных.
Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui.
Профессиональный киллер Джон Ли получает новое задание — убить полицейского. Но в решающий момент он не смог нажать на курок: под прицелом оказался ребенок. А мафия не прощает ошибок. На замену она посылает своих людей, и Джон становится мишенью. Теперь он и мошенница Мэг, которая случайно становится участницей всех событий, попадают под перекрестный огонь преступников и полиции. Единственный способ спастись — скрываться и от тех и от других, но рано или поздно им придется столкнуться лицом к лицу.
В центре сюжета запутанные отношения художницы Доры Кэррингтон и писателя Литтона Стрейчи.
Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen spoke out for pacifism, conscientious objection and peace, and received support for his actions around the world. However, his worldview collided with the nationalist and militaristic atmosphere of the era in Finland. He was considered a troublemaker, a traitor, and a caricature of masculinity. The film is a universal and timeless account of a man persecuted for his opinions. At the same time, it is a description of the weak tolerance of young independent Finland towards dissidents. Pekurinen was executed during the Continuation War by his compatriots on November 5, 1941.
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector to the Vietnam war.
Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James. Performers featured include Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge and Josephine Barstow. The conductor is Kent Nagano. As pertinent now as then, OWEN WINGRAVE was composed by Benjamin Britten at the height of the Vietnam War. The opera poses the question: Is pacifism an act of cowardice? Or rather a desire to escape from the spiral of war and create world peace? To what extent do we determine our own futures? Should we let past events inform the decisions we make? Britten’s characters grapple with timeless issues in this gripping psychodrama.
Ko Eun-young, a thirty, non-naitive Jeju Island woman with no experience in politics, runs for Jeju governor in the 2018 local elections. The bumpy ride Ko and her colleagues undergo during the election campaign moves and changes them.
A documentary about the 8-day sit-in struggle by GANG Cheolmin, a 22 year-old private in the South Korean army who declared his objection to military service on November 21, 2003 in order to stop the South Korean government from sending troops to Iraq, and the peace groups supporting him.
During the Civil War, a conscientious objector is forced to flee to the woods of West Virginia to avoid being sent into combat where he would be forced to kill, which he is adamantly against. He sets up shelter in a cave and is warily accepted by his new "neighbors"--the animals who live in the vicinity.