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This is what Toronto looked like during World War II
Toronto was a very different-looking city during World War II, a bustling manufacturing and transit point in the North American industrial powerhouse that contributed immense manpower and equipment toward the defeat of the Axis powers.A visual trip back to war-era Toronto reveals a burgeoning metropolis on the precipice of a substantial post-war population and bui...
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NPR Topics: NewsApr 29

Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-118663/syria-olive-harvest-homs

#WorldNews #Syria #Postwar

French Cinema & SubtitlesApr 25

📝 Plot: In post-World War II France, a small provincial town struggles with political tensions, moral conflicts, and social reconstruction as former collaborators and resistance members attempt to coexist while old resentments and divisions resurface.

#Uranus #Drama #PostWar #History #Society #France #Conflict #Reconstruction #Cinema

French Cinema & SubtitlesApr 25

🎭 Cast: Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Gérard Desarthe, Michel Galabru, Danièle Lebrun, Fabrice Luchini, Daniel Prévost, Yves Afonso, Myriam Boyer, Ticky Holgado, Josiane Lévêque…

#Uranus #sousTitres #cinemaFrançais #drama #postwar #society #history #ensemble #cinema

French Cinema & SubtitlesApr 25

🎬 Uranus (1990)

Subtitles available:
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
🇪🇸 Spanish

⬇️ Download https://app.box.com/s/90zachh6fk2ajpji377z3ac09pcrg422

🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100851/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://hydracker.com/titles/64386/uranus

#Uranus #Drama #FrenchCinema #ClaudeBerri #PostWar #Reconstruction #Society #History #Cinema

French Cinema & SubtitlesApr 21

📝 Plot: In the aftermath of war, a group of individuals becomes entangled in moral conflict, crime, and survival struggles. As tensions rise, hidden pasts and personal choices resurface, revealing the psychological and social consequences of a society recovering from chaos and destruction…

#Lesdemonsofaube #drama #war #crime #postwar #France #survival #FrenchCinema #classicfilm

French Cinema & SubtitlesApr 21

🎬 Les démons de l'aube [Demons of Dawn] (1946)

Subtitles available:
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇪🇸 Spanish

⬇️ Download https://app.box.com/s/b69z19ckym1t1aub4oorkwci803z1ikl

🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034690/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://m.ok.ru/video/7991528589893

#Lesdemonsofaube #drama #war #crime #cinema #YvesAllegret #resistance #postwar #France

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Apr 16
“It's interesting how many aspects of modern political commentary hold up the 1945-1971 #postwar period as the natural state of things that was broken by our weird new #modernity, when instead maybe it's more accurate to see this period as profoundly unusual.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Top Links 1074 The last prewar...
Top Links 1074 The last prewar tankers reach their destinations. Our euro, your solution? Who are the Dems? Everday life as "scanty residue".

Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

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Long ShottApr 7

‘Sopping!’

Artist: Gil Elvgren (1948)

#GilElvgren #1940s #cartoon #comicbook #art #pinup #comic #style #ink #pencil #drawing #postwar

French Cinema & SubtitlesApr 7

📝 Plot: After spending eighteen months in the Buchenwald concentration camp, Manuel returns to Paris in 1945 and grapples with how to speak about his traumatic experience. Haunted by his past and unsure who will listen, he struggles with silence and memory as he encounters others who challenge his search for meaning and acceptance after the horrors of war.

#LeTempsDuSilence #Drama #History #Survival #Memory #PostWar #Reflection #Humanity #FrenchCinema