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- This well made documentary sees the outbreak of WW II (from the invasion of Poland 1939 till the fall of France 1940) as the contemporaries have perceived it in movie theaters. The news reels, made by the Germans, the French and the British, are presented in the historical context, in a chronological order. Sometimes, the narrator commentates on misleading, propagandistic images, such as pictures of German military exercises which are later presented as real combat footage.
- What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female (presumed) collaborators with the Nazis, the use of the POW in the reconstruction of the plundered and devastated country.
- Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
- This documentary about WW II, composed of clandestine Allied film takes and German Wochenschaubilder, focuses on the French Resistance, especially the heroic but disastrous battle of the Vercors plateau in July 1944, where German troops mercilessly slaughtered the Maquis and the inhabitants.
- 201459m8.1 (42)TV MovieOne of history's greatest test pilots, Capt. Eric "Winkle" Brown recounts his many adventures flying dangerous aircraft and setting aviation records.
- In KZ Auschwitz, infamous Nazi doctors as Mengele and Schumann performed horrible and mostly fatal experiments "in vivo" on thousands of deportees, women, men and children, in order to find ways of fast and massive sterilization of "inferior races", and methods to promote the fertility of the German "Herrenvolk". This documentary, the last in Weiss' trilogy 'Hourban' (i.e. Destruction), filmed amidst the ruins of Auschwitz, is based on testimonies of witnesses, mostly deported (Jewish) doctors, to the War Crimes Tribunal of Nürnberg in 1946.
- 14 October 1943: Jewish prisoners and Russian P.O.W. killed some Nazi guards in the infamous KZ Sobibór and organized a mass escape through the electrified barbed wire fence and minefields around the camp. Few of the escapees survived the war. One of them was the Dutch Jew Jules Schelvis (1921-2016). This documentary is based on the 18 hours of interview with 12 survivors which Schelvis recorded in the 80's with his little camera.
- After years at the Russion front in WW II, the Italian soldier Bruno returns home. But he receives an anonymous letter warning him that during his absence, his fiancée Gina has begun an love affair with Tullio, his friend and workmate at a printing office. When Gina finds out that Tullio himself has written that letter, she questions the ulterior motives of her lover. And then, another anonymous letter triggers dramatic events.
- In an isolated seaside cinema on a cliff, a beautiful young woman has a one night stand with the mysterious manager. Her older husband gets in a jealous fight with the lover, but when threatened by a bizarre motor gang, to survive both should cooperate as 'Intimate Enemies'.
- During WW II, the collaborating Vichy government detained hundreds of political enemies and resistance fighters in the prison of Eysses, in the city of Villeneuve-sur-Lot (Aquitaine, France). On 19 February 1944, 1200 well organized political prisoners rose in mutiny and toke over the prison, holding the warden and 70 warders and other personnel as hostages. During 13 hours they resisted the alerted Vichy troops, but they had to surrender on the word of the warden that not no reprisals would be taken. Nevertheless, on order of the infamous collaborator Darnand, 12 mutineers were ten days later executed in the prison, and on 30 May 1944 1121 prisoners were handed over to the SS-Division Das Reich and deported to the KZ Dachau, where 210 perished.
- 2006– 1h 9mTV EpisodeTwo French women, active in the Resistance against the Nazis, , the ethnologist Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz (a niece of general De Gaulle), survived the atrocities of the KZ Ravensbrück. Friends forever, they fought till their death for more democracy, against torture and the death sentence during the bloody battle for Algerian independence, for the human rights of the poor people of the "Fourth World" in France, for the rights of women and the right of education for girls and boys in the "Third World". A remarkable and moving portrait.
- Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for heresy.
- Hélène Berr, a young brilliant Jewish female student of literature at the Sorbonne University, lives in Paris during the Nazi occupation. She keeps a diary from 1942 till 1944, wherein she describes the mounting horrors of the persecution of the Jews. In 1944 she is arrested with her parents and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She dies in Bergen-Belsen, a few days before the liberation of that concentration camp. Her secret diary was kept in the family and finally published in 2008.
- In 1630 Italy, widower Pasquale loses his job as a cobbler, so to get food for his 12 children, he and a poor companion disguise themselves as mendicant monks and knock for help at the castle of beautiful widowed Marquise Fiorenza, who begs them to prevent an unwelcome wedding to the sinister Don Egidio.
- Scientist Alice Roberts searches the (archeological) truth about the legendary King Arthur in the 12th century stories of bishop Geoffroy of Monmouth and Norman poet Robert Wace. She discovers that a fortified palace on the coast of Cornwall had relations with the medieval Mediterranean and Nordic societies.
- A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape. Based on Albertine Sarrazin's autobiographical novel.
- During WW2, three football playing young men from Oran (then French Algeria) become friends: the bourgeois student Antoine, Benjamin, a promising student from a modest Jewish family, and Kateb, an Arab fisherman's son. But will their friendship survive as the French Vichy regime, collaborating with the Nazis, harasses the Jews and discriminates the Arab population?
- The pogrom of Iasi "the subtitle of this documentary" explores the cold blooded slaughter of 15000 Jews in the city of Iasi "Romania", perpetrated by civilians of this city and Romanian military and police under command of prime minister Marshall Ion Antonescu, from 29 June 1941 till 6 July 1941 "a few days after Germany invaded Russia".
- On 7 June 1944 the French resistance movement FTP attacked German occupying forces and the hated French collaborating Milice in the town of Tulle. After fierce fighting, they liberated the town. But the next day the SS division 'Das Reich' on his way to Normandie recaptured Tulle. In ferocious reprisals, the SS executed 99 innocent men by hanging (9 June) and deported 149 other hostages to KL Dachau (10 June), were 101 eventually died.
- This documentary shows, against a backdrop of WW2 shots and newsreels, how 18 Jewish orphan children (between 5 and 15/16 year old) learned to survive by singing for money or selling cigarettes, booze or newspapers in the ghetto and on the "aryan" streets of Warsaw (Poland), from 1942 till 1945. 5 of them tell their story.
- In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport him to Poland. After the German invasion of Poland, Marcel tries to survive in the ghetto of Warschau. In 1942 his parents and brother are deported and exterminated in Treblinka, but Marcel and his wife Tosia can hide with a friendly Polish couple till in 1944 the Russian army liberates them. A civil servant in postwar communist Poland, Marcel falls in disgrace in 1949. In 1958 he flees to Germany, where in Frankfurt he will become a distinguished literary critic for the FAZ.
- 2011– 1h 18m7.3 (20)TV EpisodeOn 27 May 1942, two Czechoslovakian patriots, parachuted by the British SOE, attack in Prague Reinhard Heydrich, the ruthless SS governor of Bohemia-Moravia. They wound him mortally, upon which the Nazis launch a fierce and successful man hunt on the "terrorists". In the course of a savage repression, the village of Lidice is annihilated.
- The German invasion of Soviet-Russia seen from the Russian perspective. Documents and footage from the Russian archives and eye-witnesses also show how Stalin's propaganda machine invented 'acts of Russian heroism' in order to boost the morale and the resistance of the people.
- The "special commandos" were Jewish prisoners who were forced to operate the crematoria of the annihilation camps such as KZ Birkenau. The oral testimonies of very rare survivors and eyewitnesses, and readings from manuscripts, written and hidden by these Sonderkommandos before they were all killed and cremated, evoke in this movie the horrors of Nazi barbarity.
- Johannes Goldschmidt, an older professional officer in the German Army, was commander of transit camps for Russian POW's in Poland and Russia during WW2. In his diary he describes how (against his will) they were decimated by the Nazi politics of malnutrition, cold and epidemics.
- A sultry French boarding school for girls, in the early twenties. The young pupil Lucienne evades but returns with a weird police inspector who should protect her. Against what or whom? Solange, the psychic unstable gym teacher? Or the voyeuristic principal Madame de Challens? Or other girls?
- When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the Côte d'Azur. They get closer during the long voyage and the man invites her to his marital home.
- Up until the 50-60s in France, young girls aged from 12 to 21, known as ''Lost girls'', were locked up in extremely tough juvenile detention centers run by nuns. There were more than 100 of these establishments across France.
- Archival footage and interviews with Flt. Lt. Rupert "Tiny" Cooling distinguish this fascinating documentary special on the preeminent British bomber of the Second World War: the Wellington.
- The tide for the German Army turned between November 1942 and March 1943. The American landing in North Africa and the German defeat at Stalingrad undermined the belief in the invincibility of the Nazis. The atmosphere of those days is sketched in interviews with eyewitnesses from eight European countries (e.g. a philosopher, journalist, author, psychologist), in excerpts from diaries (the 14 year old Shoah victim Ruth Laskier, the journalist Ursula von Kardorff from Berlin), letters (Resistance hero Sophie Scholl), notes (Swiss consul von Weiss) and archive materials, mostly from (uncensored) amateurs.
- World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
- In 1942, the southern part of France is not yet occupied by the Nazis, but administrated by the collaborating French government in Vichy. A Parisian Jewish family flees to this "Free Zone" in Charente, where an old farmer gives them shelter. But when the Germans invade the Free Zone, their lives are at stake again.