Tag: war

  • ‘John Ross: American’ by Worker Studio

    An animated documentary about all American War hero John Ross. This film has an interesting method of raising funds for its production, including creating characters to look like the Army Platoon ‘Misfits’ currently serving in Afghanistan. The Blog has trailers and concept art, as well as interviews with John Ross himself. http://johnrossamerican.com/

  • ‘Prayers for Peace’ by Dustin Grella

        We have previously posted about the Animadoc channel over on Vimeo, it’s curator Boaz Lederer has kindly given us permission to feature some of his collection here at animateddocumentary.com. We start with this short animation, a deeply moving story of family loss due to the Iraq War. Slate and pastel animation sensitively supports…

  • ‘Ex Libris’ by Melissa Hacker

    Ex Libris is a hybrid non-fiction film using animation, collage, and first person narrative to trace the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather, Marco Birnholz, commissioned, created and lost in Vienna between the two world wars. Ex Libris will explore the intimate, intricate universe my grandfather created in his collection, and the exploding world he…

  • BBC article featuring ‘Waltz with Bashir’

    A report by the BBC looking at why animation can be used to talk about themes of War. Includes references to Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and graphic novels such as Maus by Art Spiegelman http://71.45.131.15/doc/archives/11671

  • ‘Persepolis’ by Marjane Satrapi

    Here at animated documentary.com we were debating if Persepolis is an animated documentary or not  …what are your thoughts? Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as…

  • ‘And We Were Young’ by Andy Smetanka

    Check out the Kickstarter campaign to fund this paper cut film (to be shot on 8mm!) about American soldiers in the First World War, from US director Andy Smetanka. Campaign here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1486916197/and-we-were-young?ref=card Teaser and pitch here: http://laughingsquid.com/and-we-were-young-a-cut-paper-animated-documentary-about-americans-in-wwi Good luck Andy!

  • ‘Silence’ by Orly Yadin & Sylvie Bringas

    After fifty years a Holocaust survivor recalls her time as a child in the camps, and afterwards with relatives in Sweden; based on the experiences of Tana Ross. http://archive.org/details/OrlyYadinSylvieBringasSilence Awards: Best Animation, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia 1999 Grand Prix, Odense Film Festival, Denmark 1999 Gold Hugo Animated Short, Chicago International Film Festival, USA 1998…

  • ‘Waltz with Bashir’ by Ari Folman

    Much has been said about this highly successful feature – the first animated documentary to ‘break through’ to cinema audiences, and an influence on many films which have followed it. Here’s the film’s official site, with some revealing information about the making of the film in the ‘Production Notes’ section – click ‘The Film’ tab.…

  • ‘Victory Through Air’ by Disney

    Wow, more from the less-known back catalogue of Walt. This time, Second World War bombing. The original link we posted is now broken, but here it is in parts on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paY6y87rrpE