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This documentary records the contribution of the Podhale region (north of the Tatra mountains) to Poland's liberation starting with the formation of Jozef Pilsudski's Legion to which both the smallholders (gorals) and the local landowners belonged. The legendary First Regiment of Podhale Riflemen created in 1918 consisted of inhabitants of this region. During the Second World War Podhale Underground fought German Nazism on many fronts. After the war, when Poland was militarily occupied by Soviet communists, partisan fighters continued their activities. A partisan detachment nicknamed "Ogien" distinguished itself...

results.listIds.director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

results.listIds.year : 1996

results.listIds.duration : 40

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Power of the Powerless

Siła Bezsilnych (Power of the Powerless) series tells the story of the Polish resistance movement against the Communist government during World War II. This chapter is dedicated to Joseph Kuras, nicknamed "Fire", who was the commander of the partisan organization "Lightning". The organization acted to release anti-communist underground prisoners from the "Saint Michala" prison in the center of Krakow near military camps and secret police headquarters with not a single shot fired. The last living witness Zbigniew Plobodah describes the action. The history of "Fire" reflects the history of post-war Poland. The...

results.listIds.director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 49

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Twentieth Century Nationalism

סרט תעודי-חינוכי על התנועות הלאומניות של המאה ה-20, שורשי הלאומניות במאות קודמות ועצמאות מדינות אשר היו בשליטה קולוניאלית כמו הודו, וייטנאם, בנגלדש, ניגריה. איורים, ציורים ותצלומי ארכיון.

results.listIds.year : 1993

results.listIds.duration : 40

results.listIds.lang : English

The Stalking of the Red Poster

In mid-November 1943, the French Vichy police arrested 23 Resistance members of the "Manouchian Group", called after its commander, Missak Manouchian. 11 of them were Jews. On 21.2.1944, after 3 months of tortures, the 23 were tried and executed. In the spring of 1944, the Vichy and German authorities printed an estimated 15,000 copies of a propaganda poster called Affiche Rouge ("Red Poster") which claimed that the resistance was headed by foreigners, Jews, unemployed people and criminals who conspirated against French life and the sovereignty of France. The campaign, however, seemd to have had the opposite...

results.listIds.director : Jorge Amat

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 124

results.listIds.lang : French

Drengene Fra Sankt Petri

results.listIds.director : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

results.listIds.year : 1991

results.listIds.lang : Danish

The Wall

Adapted by Millard Lampell from his own 1960 Broadway play, which was inspired by John Hersey's 1950 novel, The Wall tells of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. The story is told through the eyes of Warsaw Jew Dolek Benson (Tom Conti) who is a passive observer of the atrocities all around him until he learns the truth about the Nazi's "resettlement" program. Rachel Roberts, cast as Regina Kowalski, a former schoolteacher, made her final appearance in this film. Filmed on location in Sosnowiec, Poland, and first telecast February 16, 1982, The Wall earned a Peabody Award the following year.

results.listIds.director : Robert Markowitz

results.listIds.year : 1982

results.listIds.duration : 135

results.listIds.lang : English

My Confession

סרט המציג את עדותה של רחל הראל, ניצולה ילידת הולנד 1923. רחל נפטרה על רקע מוסיקה וחומרי ארכיון מספרת רחל על תולדותיה כיהודייה בזמן הכיבוש הנאצי של הולנד: חיי משפחה וקהילה; כיבוש הולנד; קיץ 1941-הגבלות תנועה ועוצר; גירושים למחנות בגרמניה ואוסטריה; תשלומי קנסות; גילויי אנטישמיות; מאי 1942- טלאי צהוב; אוגוסט 1942-מעבר לחיים במחבוא בבית הולנדים-נוצרים; אוגוסט 1943-קבלת תעודת זהות ללא סימון "J" ומעבר למגורים עם משפחה צעירה פרוטסטנטית-דתית שפעלה באופן נסתר עם מחתרת ההתנגדות; פעילות בקבוצת (דיווח על כמות ומיקום כוחות, פיצוץ גשרים, סיוע לאנשים במחבוא, שוד מרכזי הפצה, השגת מזון, תעודות זהות, מפות ותחמושת); סיוע בסתר...

results.listIds.year : 1998

results.listIds.duration : 43

results.listIds.lang : English

Hakol Anashim (It's All About People) - Chaika Grossman

עלתה לארץ ב 1948- ביום הכרזת המדינה. אחת ממנהיגות מרד הגיטאות והמחתרת האנטי -נאצית. התכנית מתמקדת בדרך קליטתם של מנהיגי המחתרת בארץ, החיבור בן עבר, הווה ועתיד. כיצד הופכים לישראלים, מנקודת המוצא של חייקה גרוסמן.

results.listIds.director : רינה פפיש

results.listIds.year : 1999

results.listIds.duration : 50

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

The Crossing

A feature film. Ten year old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. Just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto’s parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis, cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents. The is a film about the confidence, uncompromising...

results.listIds.director : Johanne Helgeland

results.listIds.year : 2020

results.listIds.duration : 96

results.listIds.lang : Norwegian

נשכחים

A documentary. The film brings to light the Holocaustof the Jewry of former Yugoslavia/ The Holocaust in YUogoslavia resulted in the slaying of 85% of the members of it's Jewish community, who previously did not suffer any form of discrimination. Stella, the film's protagonist and a young Israeli born in Yugoslavia, researches the nature of the extermination of Jews in each region of Yugoslavia, the part played in it by the Germans, and the part played by the various nationalities that that constitute Yugoslavia. In parallel, Stella explors the fate of her Muslim great-grandfather who saved Jews...

results.listIds.director : Nitza Gonen

results.listIds.year : 2018

results.listIds.duration : 74

results.listIds.lang : Croatian, English, Hebrew, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian

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