Sentences with phrase «war deserter»

Recalling the same era, Simon leung's War After War is a collaborative project with Warren Niesluchowski, a former World War 11 refugee and Vietnam War deserter whose life foregrounds the ethical challenge of reciprocity and hospitality.

The profoundly determined 15 - year - old sets off with millions of smuggled diamonds on a journey to South Africa's National Library, where she encounters Israeli Mossad agents, a lovable Chinese official, an American Vietnam War deserter and Swedish twins with grand plans to bring down their country's monarch.

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The same donors also contributed individually to some of those same members — an interesting carrot - and - stick approach that combines pressure as well as support for would - be deserters from Bush's war policy.

It's too late to fix the Free State of Jones, director - writer Gary Ross» well - meaning historical drama about the curious case of Newton Knight, an army deserter who inspired a mixed race coalition of Mississippi farmers and runaway slaves to revolt against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Starring Matthew McConaughey «s sneer, «Free State of Jones» tells the true story of Newton Knight, a man who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and created his own militia of other deserters and freed slaves who fought back against the Rebs and their predations on poor local land owners.

This year he gets a Special Screening with Golden Years, scripted alongside Cedric Anger and starring Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake) as a WWI deserter who goes into hiding by posing as a woman... but after the war ends, he can't bring himself to revert to his former identity.

In Nos années folles («Golden Years»), Deladonchamps is Paul, a military deserter who disguises himself as a woman, with the help of his wife, to escape World War I.

Set in Virginia during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds the desperate Corporal John McBurney (Colin Farrell), an injured Union soldier and a deserter seeking refuge at an all - female Southern boarding school.

WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.

His main goal is to package the war and sell it to the citizenry, but when he runs afoul of a European commander (Brendan Gleeson), he's labeled a deserter and forced into combat even when, he readily admits, he can barely handle the trauma of a paper cut.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

Well, when he had to join the army, just after World War II, they managed to turn him into two people; so he was bashing away at infantry training at a camp in Northern Ireland when two sea - sick military policemen showed up and arrested him for being a deserter from a different camp in the south of England, where his other self was supposed to be bashing away.

2015 Monument for members of resistants, deserters and victims of 2nd world war (with Ruben Aubrecht), KÖR, Vienna

European court says military deserter needs evidence of involvement in war crimes to seek asylum, Reuters