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A mono-drama. The story of Yan Karski. He stated that all he can says is that he saw it, and it was the truth. Karski was a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the Blitzkrieg, Karski swor allegiance to the Polish Underground and risked his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Karski ecaped a Gestapo prison, and beared witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endured mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and...

Director : Derek Goldman, Jeff Hutchens

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 95

Language : English

To Bear Witness

A documentary film. The movie focuses on the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by the Allied Armies in 1945. It captures the reunions of survivors and liberators at the First International Liberators Conference and explores the memories of those who survived the Holocaust and the men and women who liberated the camps. Includes captured Nazi footage and still photographs from personal archives. Presented by Elie Wiesel.

Director : Gavin P. Boyle

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 57

Language : English

The Night of Fools

דוקו –דרמה. סיפורה של מחרת יהודית בת 400 איש שבלילה אחד בנובמבר 1942 הצליחה לכבוש את העיר אלג'יר, בירת אלג'יריה, מידי צבא וישי הפרו נאצי, לעצור בבתיהם את ראשי ממשל וישי הפשיסטיים, ולמסור את מפתחות העיר אלג'יר לכוחות בעלות הברית שנחתו למחרת בבוקר לחופי העיר. סיפור מדהים שלא סופר עד כה, שמשמשים בו בערבוביה תעוזה, חוצפה, יצירתיות, עורמה, שלומיאליות ואמונה.

Director : Rami Kimchi

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 56

Line of Separation- episode 3 -My LAnd Your Land

A Television series. A little German town located on the Bavarian and Thuringian border gets caught in the current of world history at the end of the Second World War. Family, friends and lovers are separated from each other, first by a wooden fence, later by a border with shoot-to-kill order. Tannbach is a German-German story under the burning glass, exemplified by the fate of a small village communit. Tannbach is a German mini-series that first aired in 2015. It is a fictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach. The series explores the...

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 98

Language : German

Line of Separation- episode 2 -Dispossession+My LAnd Your Land

A Television series. A little German town located on the Bavarian and Thuringian border gets caught in the current of world history at the end of the Second World War. Family, friends and lovers are separated from each other, first by a wooden fence, later by a border with shoot-to-kill order. "Tannbach" is a German-German story under the burning glass, exemplified by the fate of a small village communit. Tannbach is a German mini-series that first aired in 2015. It is a fictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach. The series explores the...

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 249

Language : German

Line of Separation

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 91

Language : German

LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE 1939- 1945

A l'automme 1944, les alliees ont pris position le long de la frontiere german0-belge. Privees de soutien aerien et de combustible, les troups allemandes sont dans une situation catastrophique.

Director : Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 83

Language : English, French