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In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome and began a nine-month battle for the “Eternal City”. For Hitler, control of Rome was symbolic and of strategic importance because the city was the European partner of Nazi Germany. The allies were steadfast in their control of the city’s holy institutions and her treasures. This documentary presents the battle for Rome and is based on Robert Katz’s provocative book of 2003: ‘The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943 – June 1944’. Katz is an American author and playwright living in Tuscany. He researches the...

Duration : 50

Language : English

Ratlines

The Jewish Holocaust of the 1930's and 40's is probably one of the most well-documented atrocities in recent Western history. The horrors suffered by six million Jews and eight million other minorities in Nazi concentration camps have been the subject of countless books, films, and documentaries, and have taken an important place in school curricula throughout the US and Europe. But is it possible the same powers who claim that education and history will bring justice to victims of the Holocaust have failed to bring justice to them in the only practical manner possible? Ratlines explores the events in the...

Director : Piers Thompson

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 46

Language : English

The Restless Conscience - Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945

Documentary film tht describes the resistance to Hitler and Nazism in Germany in 1933-1945. Description of the activities of individuals and the German resistance organizations. Candidate for the Oscar Award in the category of best documentary film. Includes testimonies, interviews, photographs and archival films.

Director : Hava Kohav Beller

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 109

Language : English, German

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Part 2

Second part of a four-hour documentary film about the fugitive Nazi criminal Klaus Barbi who served as head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France. Barbi, who was known as "The Butcher of Lyons", is responsible for the deaths of people in the French underground and thousands of Jews. The film describes his life from childhood in Germany until his trial in 1983, after he succeeded for 40 years to evade judgment. Winner of the Oscar Award in the category best documentary film in 1988.

Director : Marcel Ophüls

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 126

Language : English, French, Spanish

Occupied Rome

Film about the German occupation in Rome. The Film shows the battles with the allies, the bombardment of Rome. The film focuses on the resistance of the population and the Vatican state against the Germans orders, against the deportation of Roman Jews. The film is composed from archive-document film from the official Television, film from the allies, movies from the postwar time. (Roma citta aperta from Rossellini and others) and some photos.

Director : Ansano Giannarelli

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 60

Language : Italian