In an infantry regiment in the Tula region, where the inspired Lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev from the capital is sent to serve, a military crime occurs. A soldier, who is blamed for the crime, faces a military tribunal and execution. Kolokoltsev seeks help from Count Tolstoy, who decides to defend the innocent. This intense story about the complexity of choice and loyalty to one's ideals is based on real events.

Flicker Alley is proud to present a pair of new restorations of decisive and timely documentaries by filmmaker Herbert Kline from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Crisis: A Film of 'The Nazi Way' and Lights Out in Europe. Herbert Kline made his breakthrough documentary Crisis: A Film of 'The Nazi Way' as the storm clouds of impending war gathered over Europe in 1938. Narrated by illustrious American stage, film, and television actor, Leif...

"Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project -- to unlock cinema's potential as a vehicle for social change -- in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of colonialism, political corruption, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade -- the radical call to resistance...

Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually beautiful films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation...

A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. He uses his honeymoon with his wife as a cover, but he becomes entranced by his former teacher's wife, and begins to question the fascist tenants he has accepted all of his life.

While early automobile makers frequently assumed that men would be behind the wheel, from the start, women embraced driving! From ambulance drivers to vacation seekers, women proved that they were up for the challenge of driving on largely unpaved roads. For them, Route 66 was not just a way of getting from point a to point b, but it created opportunities for entrepreneurship, creativity, political activism and independence.

A young pilot, fresh out of training, is called to join a Flight while they wait for the call to scramble. Throughout a single day, the skies of southern England are filled with deadly dogfights, and after every exhausting battle, the pilots return to the dispersal hut only to find another of their number missing. In a thrilling climax, the airfield comes under direct attack and the Flight takes off once again, ascending into action against fatally...