IDS 101: Music in Response to War: Films & More

Never-before-seen Disney war effort productions, including exclusive declassified material, training, propaganda and educational films.

Based loosely on the memoirs of Shostakovich, a classical composer living in Russia during the reign of Stalin, this film traces the relationship between Shostakovich and Stalin and the effect that Stalin had on Shostakovich's life and work.

A young American nurse from Little Rock meets the handsome and mysterious French planter on a South Pacific island during World War II.

Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times. Music by Shostakovich

Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.

Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila.

Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home.

Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors.

The tale of a composer who sells his soul to Satan to ensure his own creativity, but finds he cannot keep to his bargain to refrain from all close human relationships and his closest friends die as a result.

During the Iran-Iraq war, an Iranian-Kurd musician and his sons go to find the old man's former wife, a singer, who fled Iran when women were forbidden to perform publicly.

A priest prepares for a requiem mass and remembers the tragic life of a Spanish peasant during the Spanish Civil War.

Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary.

The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. Music by Philip Glass

For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended --

A look at the life of controversial musician, activist, and environmentalist Pete Seeger, and how he used his songs to promote social change.

When America enters World War II in 1941, jazz music goes to war too. Swing becomes a symbol of democracy at home and entertainers like Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw take their music to the men and women of the armed forces overseas.

In 1965, as the Vietnam War intensified, students and teachers from the Hanoi National Conservatory of Music were forced to flee the city for the relative safety of a village in the countryside. With the help of villagers, they built an entire campus underground, creating a maze of hidden tunnels connecting an auditorium and classrooms. There, as the war raged around them, they lived, studied and played music for five years. "Vietnam symphony" tells their story.

In the face of horrific living conditions, Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp--artists, musicians, poets and writers--fought back with art and music. Led by conductor Rafael Schächter, they re-imagined a Catholic liturgical work, Verdi's Requiem, as a condemnation of the Nazis.

Follows Acrassicauda, the only heavy metal band in Iraq, as they struggle daily to stay alive and stay together as a band in their war-torn country.

Carson Grant project recording of Japanese military Gunka and Minyo from World War II.

During the Vietnam War, American G.I.s inscribed their military issued lighters with poems. Zippo songs is a song cycle by Phil Kline based upon these poems.

Oratorio for soprano, baritone, chorus, children's chorus, and large orchestra. Sung in Latin, English, and Vietnamese. Elliot Goldenthal, composer Yo-Yo Ma, instrumentalist...

Neil Young comes out swinging with a protest album that takes aim at war, President Bush, pharmaceutical companies, and more.