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Summary: A television documentary about the Jewish community in Indonesia during World War II. In the 1930s and during World War II, many Jews from Eastern Europe arrived in Indonesia and settled there. Evidence of the prosperity of Jewish life in Indonesia during the interwar period is the Zionist newspaper "Erets Israel" which appeared from 1926 to the beginning of the Japanese occupation continuously. At the same time, even before the Japanese occupation, the Jews suffered from anti-Semitism, mainly by Dutch elements who later became part of the Dutch Nazi Party. In January 1942, Indonesia was occupied...

Director : איתי ורד

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 18

Language : English, Hebrew

A. Einstein - How I See the World

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Richard Kroehling

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 57

Language : English

A Day that Shook the World - December 7th 1941

This episode in the BBC series, which tell of critical days on the history of the 20th century, deals with January 7th, 1941, the day of the surprise Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Day after the devastating attack, which caused personnel losses of 2,402 men, the US congress declared war on the Empire of Japan. Newsreels and explanatory narration.

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 4

Language : English

Hrror in the East - Part Two – Death Before Surrender

During the years leading up to World War II, the citizens of Japan were encouraged to look upon their Emperor as a god. This divine loyalty to their leader was transferred to the battlefield, where soldiers and Kamikaze pilots were willing to fight to the death rather than face defeat or capture. As the allies gained the upper hand, the self-destructive tactics of the Japanese grew more extreme.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 48

Language : English, Japanese

Hrror in the East - Part One – Turning Against the West

סדרת דוקו דרמה של הBBC. During the First World War, POWs in Japan were treated remarkably well. What happened in the intervening years that led the nation to commit such inhumane atrocities in World War II? This series probes the Japanese belief at the time of racial superiority and the mentality that drove Kamikaze fighters. Newly unearthed archive material reveals horrific stories involving cannibalism and crucifixion.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 46

Language : English

The Battle of the Alantic - The Hunted

Production Year : 2005

Language : English

The Battle of the Atlantic- The Grey Wolves

סדרת דוקודרמה על מלחמת העולם השניה. וינסטון צ'רצ'יל כתב פעם ש"הדבר היחיד שאי פעם באמת הפחיד אותי במהלך המלחמה היה סכנת הסירה". באומרו זאת, הוא זיהה נכון את חשיבות האיום שהציבו צוללות גרמניות במהלך מלחמת העולם השנייה (ה'Unterseeboot') על חבל ההצלה האטלנטי. חבל הצלה זה היה 'מרכז הכובד' של בריטניה - שאובדו היה מוביל כנראה לתבוסה סיטונית במלחמה.

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 49

Language : English

The Road to War - Japan

סדרה תיעודית של הBBC. The sixth in an eight-part series of documentaries giving a country-by-country account of the origins of WWII, written and narrated by Charles Wheeler. This episode traces Japan's road to war from drawing plans to destroy the US fleet in the Pacific (1907) to the Pearl Harbour attack (1941).

Director : Charels Wheeler

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 49

Language : English

Quezon's Game

סרט עלילתי באורך מלא.

Director : Matthew E. Rosen

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 127

Language : English

Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking

דוקו דרמה. About a young Chinese-American author's journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book "The Rape of Nanking". Iris Chang's harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces

Director : Anne Pick, William Spahic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 103

Language : Chinese, English

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