Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary which incorporates a film shot of trial of the conspirators who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1944.

Director : Rex Bloomstein

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 60

Language : English, German

Truth and Conviction - The Helmuth Hubener Story

סרט. In 1941, after Hitler's Nazi Regime had seized unbelievable control over the German people, Helmuth Hubener & two friends from his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Branch formed a resistance group. The three of them printed & distributed flyers though Hamburg that denounced Hitler and his propaganda machine. This is their story.

Director : Matt Whitaker

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 59

Language : English

השתיקה השוודית

A documentary film. On a night train in the midst of the Second World War, a German SS officer secretly passes on the very first testimony of the Holocaust to a Swedish diplomat. In present time an old woman tries to find the truth to this event which gave her father a sense of guilt for the rest of his life. This film begins in the Holocaust to evolve into a modern story about personal and collective guilt

Director : Carl Svensson

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 93

Language : Swedish

The Collini Case

A feature film and a thriller. Attorney Caspar Leinen is appointed by the court to defend the suspect in a spectacular murder case. But he soon starts to unearth one of the greatest legal scandals ever, stretching back to the aftermath of Nazi Germany. The film shows the dark days of WWII , testing the bounds between morality and justice. It is based on the novel by Ferdinand von Schirach. The film was Shown at Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival - 2020 Miami Jewish Film Festival - 2020

Director : Marco Kreuzpaintner

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 120

Language : German, Italian

Operation Teutonic Sword

Propaganda film. "Unternehmen Teutonenschwert" was the code word for the murder of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and Louis Barthou (Franch Foreign Minister) on 09.09.1934, which was organized by order of the German military secret service. With the use of documents, the film shows the responsibility which Hans Speidel had for the murder and who was the commander of the Nato land forces in central Europe in 1958. Furthermore Speidel is revealed as being the organizer of the "Taktik der verbrannten Erde" (scorched earth policy) in the war against the Soviet Union, and of betraying Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to...

Director : Annelie Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike

Production Year : 1957

Duration : 48

Language : German

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