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This is a short historical war drama about the brave soldiers of the Korean People's Army (DPRK) fighting a decisive battle against invading US troops. The film is not deep or epic but it is a exciting one, with some beautiful North Korean songs and hymns. You can see the budget for the war scenes was not huge (as it was filmed in the late 80s or early 90s) but it is cool how they still managed to make it look good. The film contains many good and strong North Korean plaque-political quotes about battle, honour, duty, love, death, etc. Had they had a bit bigger budget it would have been much better but it's not a bad film. It just looks more like a war movie produced in the 50s or 60s despite being made in the modern age.

This is a documentary truly made for a young and deeply uneducated viewer who doesn't read books, who has to see the kristallnacht or Babij Jar reenacted in poorly and tacky made scenes (which doesn't do the crimes of the Holocaust justice either) in order to understand what it was like. A thing like Babij Jar which normal generations automatically has known about since elementary school by reading history books, is instead reenacted in a 5 minute b-movie-like scene here for the generations who no longer read books or who no longer can listen to a witness or survivor without a fidger spinner in their hand. Not all but some of the younger (and mostly US american) historians interviewed here says things like "and I can't understand why they did this!" (about the Holocaust). I say if you are a historian and do not - then it is about time to read a book instead... The positive part I can say about this documentary is the Nürnberg parts, as it brings up some few details not known before. But that's it. The rest of the of the documentary is about things that one should learn about in books by educated historians and which is so basic for humanity and sadly here treated like a b-movie tv-production reenactment.

If you want a serious documentary, watch Shoah, or Hotel Terminus, or Night and Fog, and so on. Or maybe a tiktok-using youth would get bored by them? Sad, if so.

This film / miniseries is likely the best most well-made film Sweden has produced in modern times. It depicts the real story of deeply disturbed serial-shooter John Ausonius (perfectly acted by David Dencik, who talks and looks so much like the real killer that it's scary, and plays the role in such a intense and eerie way), who hunted and shot immigrants in Sweden, and robbed more than 20-30 banks in Stockholm. The film shows the Swedish police work, society, it's politics and media, and so on, in the 80's and early 90's. It's a intense and very dark tragic story, but an important one. The cinematography by Hoytema is pure perfection too. The way the film builds up the eerie and antisocial psychological profile of the murderous Ausonius is just brilliant. If you can find this one with English subtitles; watch it!