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This part in a documentary series of Hitler's career chronicles the largest amphibious invasion in history. Decisions, losses, battles and strategies come alive with footage and interviews with soldiers, commanders and civilians. The program traces the development of D-Day from the initial plans to the final breakthrough and follows the strategies of Eisenhower, Montgomery, Marshall and Bradley and the counter-attacks and defences of their German opponents. Archive footage, color illustrations, commentaires.

Director : Robert Lihani

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 50

Language : English

Liberation Unit

A documentary film. On May 4th, 1945, the 71st Division of the Third Army liberated Gunskirchen Lager, a carefully concealed German concentration camp north of Lambach, Austria. In recent years, many survivors of Gunskirchen have joined with the 71st Division for an annual reunion. As time passes, soldiers and survivors alike want their stories told.

Director : Adrian Esposito

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 70

Language : English

A Powerful Testimony of Forgiveness - Peter Loth, From Holocaust to New Life

עדות פרונטלית באנגלית מאת פיטר לות' (Peter Loth), ניצול שואה יהודי-גרמני אשר שימש בילדותו לניסויים רפואיים במחנה שטוטהוף (Stutthof). כולל תצלומי ארכיון.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 116

Language : English

More Great Escapes of World War Two

Documentary film that presents a collection of escape stories from World War II through testimonies of former war prisoners, underground fighters and resistance movements, soldiers and guards, dramatic reconstruction, archival photographs and films. Narration by the American actor Ed Asner.

Director : Scott Paddor

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 95

Language : English

A Program About the Nazi Camps and their Liberation by Japanese Soldiers of The US Army

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 52

Language : English, Japanese

The Marrige of Maria Braun

Award winning drama by the West German director Fassbinder at the center of which is the story of Maria Braun, a young German woman whose husband was sent to the eastern front. The story that is presented from a woman's point of view seeks to describe days of loss, destruction and confusion in Germany after the war.

Director : Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 120

Language : English, German

Yanks

סיפור אהבה מרגש המתרחש בעת מלחמת העולם השנייה. חיילים אמריקאים מתאהבים בנערות אנגליות והן מחזירות להם תשוקת אמת, על אדמת אנגליה בעת הבליץ קריג.

Director : John Schlesinger

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 133

Language : English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

War and Remembrance - Part 12

פרק תשיעי ב"מלחמה וזכרון", סדרת דרמה בת 12 פרקים המבוססת על רב המכר מאת הרמן ווק (Herman Wouk). סיפור הסדרה מתחיל עם הפצצת פרל הרבור והצטרפות ארה"ב למלחמה באירופה והוא עוקב אחר המשך קורותיה של משפחת הנרי האמריקנית שראשיתו הוצג בסדרה "רוחות מלחמה", גם היא לפי ספרו של ווק, תוך שילוב סיפורן של דמויות פיקטיביות באירועים מרכזיים של מלה"ע ה-2 ובדמויות היסטוריות ידועות.

Director : Dan Curtis, Tommy Groszman

Production Year : 1988

Language : English

Walter Nabholz - talking about the time as forced laborer

Biography of Walter Nabholz, born in Munich, survivor, who served in Wermacht, but being Mieschling was deported to Tiefehort camp in 1944.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 44

Language : German

War and Remembrance - Part 9

Episode 9 in “War and Remembrance”, a 12 part television drama based on the best-seller by Herman Wouk. The story starts with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the US joining the war in Europe. It then follows generations of the American Henry family whose beginnings were presented in “The Winds of War”, also a book by Wouk. Combines the stories of fictitious characters with key events of the Second World War.

Director : Dan Curtis, Tommy Groszman

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 91

Language : English

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