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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

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

For a Lost Soldier

A feature film. A young Dutch boy meets a Canadian soldier during the final months leading up to the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation during World War II. The bond evolves between the two, that leads into a sexual relationship. Film based upon the autobiographical novel of the same title by ballet dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig

Director : Roeland Kerbosch

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 92

Language : Dutch

The Brylcreem Boys

In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed. Outside the camp, both fall in love with the same woman, an independent Irishwoman who refuses to take steps in their private...

Director : Terence Ryan

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 106

Language : English

Witnesses to Victory

The climactic last moments of the Second World War, evoked through interviews and the diaries and letters of ten people caught up in the liberation of Europe from the grip of Nazi terror.

Language : English

49th Parallel

תרומתם של הבמאים החשובים מייקל פאוול ואמריק פרסבורגר (הנעליים האדומות) למאמץ המלחמתי, ובמיוחד לתעמולה של אנגליה שדחקה בארצות הברית לוותר על נייטרליות ולהצטרף לבעלות הברית. צוות גרמני של U-boat נפלט לחופיה של ניופאונדלנד (קנדה) ומחפש דרך לעבור את הגבול ולהסתנן לארה"ב. קבוצה של פטריוטים (קנדה היא חלק מה-commonwealth הבריטי) תעשה הכל כדי למנוע זאת. התסריט זכה בפרס האוסקר.

Director : Michael Powell

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 123

Language : English

D-Day: The Total Story - The Breakout

This part in a documentary series of Hitler's career concentrates on the Nazi military strategy during World War II as well as on the genocidal atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

Director : Robert Lihani

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 50

Language : English

D-Day: The Total Story, H - Hour

This part in a documentary series of Hitler's career concentrates on the Nazi military strategy during World War II as well as on the genocidal atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

Director : Robert Lihani

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 50

Language : English

German Newsreels no. 717 (31/5/44), 719 (14/6/44).

German Newsreel no. 717 (31 May, 1944): Mother's Day: Mothers visit children at a "Sending Children to the Country" camp; Styria District Party Director Uberreither awards a Mother's Honor Cross. Professor Moeller, a female oceanographer, takes water samples, then investigates them in a laboratory. In Krems, Austria, the 13th German Gymnastics Championship tournament. A welterweight boxing match between a German and a Dutchman sponsored by the Service for Troop Morale. Food distribution: newspaper ads for special food allotments; grocery store; warehouses and trucks; Reich Minister Backe. Seriously wounded...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 35 39

Language : English, German

The Great Escapes Of World War Two

Director : Robert Kirk

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 200

Language : English

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