Action! Explosions go off, smoke fills the set, dozens of extras start running everywhere. A young director turns his mom's backyard into the biggest and most absurd shoot indie moviemaking has ever seen.

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What happens when the testimonies of maimed Colonial War veterans meet the visual universe of Marvel comics? Would an alien life form, confronted with the evidence shown here, be able to say what war and peace mean to the members of the race we call human?

Produced by Duy Tan University, “Beyond a War” is the moving documentary portrait of university presidents Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., and Dr. Lê Công Cơ. More than 50 years ago, Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Lê Công Cơ were on opposite sides of the Vietnam War. Hawkins served as platoon leader in the U.S. Marine Corps and Lê Công Cơ fought against American forces as a member of the Viet Cong. Today, they lead Troy University and Duy Tan University, respectively, and are working together to ensure a brighter future for students in both the U.S. and Vietnam. “Beyond a War” captures their personal stories of combat and survival during the war, and their drive to bring about change through the power of education and international collaboration.

War with Russia on the east of Ukraine through the director's lens who stayed for a year in the centre of the conflict zone. He became a paramedic volunteer and continued filming everything what was happening in front of his eyes, making a rare true document of this brutal war that continues to happen in the centre of Europe.

Early postwar years in a small mining town near Tula. While the adults, who are mostly women, are busy with work, the youngsters are left to fend for themselves and fight their own battles.

An animated collage of the battle between Napoleon and Kutuzov, set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.