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A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers - WWII, The Propaganda Battle

Educational television program that examines the subject of propaganda in cinema. Excerpts from propaganda films, newsreels and original films.

Director : David Grubin

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 50

Language : English

Lake 68

In the early 1960s the Brodzkys, the Baumritters and the Burgins, three families of ideological communists of mostly Jewish origin who remained friends, decided to buy a plot of land at Dłużek lake on the outskirts of Mazury, Poland’s lake district, to build summer homes. But, a wave of anti-Semitism forced the members of the Polish communist elite, who barely considered themselves Jewish, to emigrate from Poland in 1968. Most went to Sweden, Denmark, France, U.S. and Canada, and some to Israel - but before they left, they spent their last weeks crowded into the lake house The documentary was made by Stanisław...

Director : Irit Shamgar

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 53

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Portraits of Madness

An interview with Lawrence L. Rhee, a former US army photographer. Rhee, a German Jew who escaped his native land in the mid 1930s, settled with his family in a New Maxico village in 1936. Later he would serve as an army photographer, returning to Europe. His skills led him to Nuremberg during the War Crimes Tribunals as a Language expert and photographer. At Nuremberg he came to know Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's personal photographer and friend, whose photographs were evidence at the trials. The associations were mostly professionals, but Hoffmann, as if to severe his own long associations with Nazi...

Director : Dale Sonnenberg

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

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...

Director : Jorge Amat

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 124

Language : French

מבט שני - חיילי הקולנוע של הרייך השלישי, 4.2.1986.

Israeli Television report that was broadcast 4th February 1986 as part of the investigations by the “Second Look” program. It deals with the propaganda system in the cinema of the Third Reich and mainly focuses on anti-Semitic propaganda, among others, “The Rothschilds”, “The Eternal Jew”, and “The Jew of Zis”.

Director : איתן אורן

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 61

Language : Hebrew

German Soldiers' Albums and Propaganda Films

Classical anti-semitic stereotypes stand out in this film showing photographs and footage shot by German soldiers meeting Polish Jews for the first time.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 3

Language : Silent Film

Führer and Seducer

A docu-drama. this film is a deconstruction of Joseph Goebbles's propaganda machine. While Hitler is at the height of his power, Joseph Goebbels serves as the mastermind behind the images, speeches, and films that prepared the German people for the the mass murder of Jews. When the war is lost, Geobbels stages his last scene - the murder of his family and his own suicide in the Berlin bunker. Seven Holocaust survivors share thier exeperiences with Hitler's and Goebbels' actions throughout thefilm.

Director : Joachim A. Lang

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 123

Language : German

קרוב יותר לירח

A feature film. Bucharest 1959. A spectacular Bank heist has the country in an uproar. In post-war Communist Romania it is an unimaginable slap in the face to the iron fisted authorities. Four men and a woman are arrested, tried, convicted and while waiting for their execution, are forced to star in a propaganda film about the crime. All five protagonists were heroes of the resistance during the Second World War and highly placed members of Romanian society. They clearly knew they would be caught and executed. Based on the true story ofIoanid Group (Banda Ioanid). The Film was shown in Jewish film...

Director : Nae Caranfil

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 112

Language : English

Hitlers Hollywood

A Docmentary film by Rüdiger Suchsland, Suchsland examinest German Cinema in the Age of Propaganda 1933 – 1945 The Question is Nazi cinema of the Third Reich reveals about its period and its people? How do these films, including their myths, their stories, their open lies and hidden truths, affect the future of the history of German cinema?

Director : Rüdiger Suchsland

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 106

Language : English, German

Robert and Bertram

הוא סרט תעמולה נאצי אנטישמי שהופק כקומדיה קלילה בשנת 1939. הסיפור מתרחש בשנת 1893. רוברט וברטם הם צמד נוודים שנמלטו מן הכלא ומצליחים להסתדר ללא פרוטה בכיסם. יום אחד הם נתקלים בבתו של פונדקאי מקומי, המספרת להם בדמעות שהיא חייבת להתחתן עם היהודי בידרמאייר זה, ידידו של יהודי אחר, איפלמאייר, שאביה חייב לו סכום כסף גבוה. כאשר הנוודים שומעים את הסיפור הם מחליטים לגנוב את כספו של איפלמאייר, ובעת מסיבת האירוסין הם מגיעים אל הפונדק ומציעים את עצמם כשוטפי-כלים. הפונדק משמש להם נקודת תצפית מצוינת אל ביתו של איפלמאייר, המצוי בקרבת מקום. יום אחד בעת שאיפלמאייר עורך נשף מסיכות, משעשע ברטראם את האורחים בשיר ורוברט גונב את...

Director : Hans H. Zerlett

Production Year : 1939

Language : German