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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

Play Dirty

Drama with Michael Caine as Captain Douglas a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee handling incoming fuel supplies for the British 8th Army in North Africa. It is a comfortable life until a Popski's Private Army style colonel is told he must put a regular officer to lead one of his units on a dangerous mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot 400 miles behind enemy lines.

Director : André De Toth

Production Year : 1968

Duration : 118

Language : English

The French Resistance

This documentary begins with tales from the French Resistance, escape lines operated by civilians, and the RAF Flight 161 Special Squadron that flew in and took out spies (members of the British Special Operations Executive), escapers, and evaders to and from England. The documentary emphasizes that, in France, working in the Resistance and assisting Allied airmen on the run carried a death sentence from the Gestapo. Nevertheless, men and women resisted occupation and performed this dangerous but necessary work for the honor of France.

Director : Robert Kirk

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 40

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

Hitler's Assistants – Dönitz the Successor

Documentary film that deals with Admiral Karl Doenitz (1891-1980), commander of Hitler's fleet (Grossadmiral).

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 40 42

Language : German

Exodus

Based on the acclaimed novel by Leon Uris (1958), this epic drama tells the story of "Exodus", an illegal immigration ship that became the symbol of the struggle for the right of free Jewish immigration into Palestine and the birth of the Jewish state. The story heightens the tensions between the British, the Arabs and the Jews of Palestine. "Exodus" was shot on location all over the Mediterranean and its cast includes many celebrated actors (Paul Newman, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo and Eva Marie Saint). The music by composer Ernest Gold won an Academy Award.

Director : Otto Preminger

Production Year : 1960

Duration : 107

Language : English

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

Waves of Freedom

Recruited in 1947 by the Haganah to break the British naval blockade of Palestine, Paul Kaye and twenty-five other American recruits set sail in a dilapidated ship, “The Tradewinds,” from Baltimore to Palestine. Along the way, they picked up 1,500 displaced persons in Italy in the dead of night, and engaged in a naval battle with three British warships. And that is just the beginning of their astounding true story, upon which the award-winning novel and film Exodus was based. Through poignant, insightful, colorful and sometimes humorous interviews, interspersed with historic footage, the filmdocuments the...

Director : אלן רוזנטל

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 53

Language : English, Hebrew

Triple Cross

A British con-man serving jail time, get released by the occupying Germans during World War II, in exchange for his spying services. Instead, he tricks the Germans by joining his own country as a secret double-agent.

Director : Terence Young

Production Year : 1967

Duration : 130

Language : English, French

The Great Escape

Based upon the factual book of the same name (1950) by Paul Brickhill, this acclaimed war drama recounts the events of the 1944 Allied officers escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. Although the film features several fictional events, it is usually regarded as true to the real story. One of the film’s projecting inaccuracies, though, is its failure to show how cold, hungry and sore prison life really was. Featuring an all-star cast including McQueen (whose motorcycle chase is the film's most remembered action scene), James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and...

Director : John Sturges

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 167

Language : English, French, German

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