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Filmed in Rome and Austria, this TV biopic tells the story of Pope John Paul II, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 16.10.1978 until his death in 2005. The story begins in 1938, when teen-aged Karol Wojtyla, a would-be actor, decides instead to enter the priesthood. Played from age 26 onward by actor Albert Finney, Wojtyla spends WWII years in the Polish anti-Nazi movement. He continues battling for his beliefs with the Communist-ruled Polish government in the postwar years. In 1978, Wojtyla is elected to succeed Pope John Paul I, thereby becoming the first non-Italian pope in 4 centuries. Relations between...

Director : Herbert Wise

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 150

Language : English

Hitler: The Rise Of Evil

A two parts CBS miniseries that explores Adolf Hitler's rise to power during the years prior to World War II and focuses on how the German society after World War I made that rise possible. The movie attempts to illustrate how Hitler's anti-Semitism became central to his political mission in Germany and found a broad hold among the German public. Also central to the story are the influence that Ernst Hanfstaengl had on Hitler's rise and his relationship with mistress Eva Braun. The subplot of this film follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising Nazism. Winner of 2 Emmy...

Director : Christian Duguay

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 177

Language : English

Before the Fall (Napola)

This award winning drama set in Berlin 1942 and tells the story of a young factory worker whose boxing talent gets him into the National Political Academy (NaPolA), a high school that grooms young Germans for positions of power both at home and abroad using military techniques to encourage loyalty to the Hitler and conformity with Nazi ideology. Lured by promises of wealth and Olympic glory, Friedrich defies his Anti-Nazi father and is soon immersed in the school's brutal curriculum. Uniformed and eager, he and the other new cadets learn weaponry and anti-Semitism with equal punctiliousness. There is no time, or...

Director : Dennis Gansel

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 110

Language : German

The Man who Played with Fire

A documentary film. documentary about the Millennium-trilogy author Stieg Larsson and his pioneering work of fighting right wing extremists and neo-Nazis

Director : Henrik Georgsson

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 99

Language : Swedish

The Invisibles

A fictionalized documentary feature shedding light on Jewish citizens who lived in hiding when the Nazis declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943. Directed by Claus Raefle and lensed by Joerg Widmer, whose credits include “Pina” and “Tree of Life,” “The Invisibles” weaves dramatic re-enactments and interviews with four survivors who were at the time teenagers and young adults. In 1943, there were 7000 Jewish men, women and children still living in the country.

Director : Claus Räfle

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 110

Language : German

A Path Across the Danube

A tragic story of two young friends, a Slovak and a Czech, after the establishment of the Slovak State and the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. After being accused of sabotage by the Gestapo they must escape from the country. Along the way, for better and for worse, they meet various kinds of people on whom their future lives depend.

Director : Miloslav Luther

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 89

Language : Slovak