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Elem Klimov, head of the Soviet Filmmakers Association, explores the horrors of WW2 in this coming-of-age drama, and an indictment of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of Florya, a 14-year-old farm boy who looses his innocence when becoming a witness of genocide. The story begins when Florya steals a gun from a soldier's shallow grave and runs off to join the Resistance fighters in wooded Byelorussia. But after he's left behind by the older partisans, Florya returns home to find his mother and baby sisters have been slaughtered, along with the other villagers. The grieving boy travels on to nearby town, where...

Director : Elem Klimov

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 73

Language : Russian

Heroes and Tyrants of the 20th Century - Hitler

חייו של הרודן, עליית הנאציזם ומהלכים מרכזיים במלה"ע ה-2 באמצעות תצלומי וסרטי ארכיון. מלה"ע ה-1, חיי כלכלה בגרמניה, ספרטקים, הפגנות, מפלגה נאצית, ס"א, עיתונים, ארנסט רוהם, פוטש 1923, רודולף הס, "מיין קאמפף", יוליוס שטרייכר, "דר שטירמר", הינדנבורג, לודנדורף, בחירות, מצוקה כלכלית, מפגנים, תעמולה, פון שלייכר, פון פאפן, מצעדים, 27.2.33 - שרפת הרייכסטאג, מעצרי מתנגדים, 1.4.33 - חרם כלכלי על עסקים יהודים, 1.5.33 - שרפת ספרים, מוסוליני, 30.6.34 - "ליל הסכינים הארוכות", ס"ס, ברכטסגאדן, גלי ראובל, אווה בראון, צבא גרמני, תעשייה צבאית, קרופ, "לבנסבורן", איינשטיין, 7.3.36 - כוחות גרמנים בריינלנד, 12.3.38 - "אנשלוס", 30.9.38...

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 55

Language : English

War of the Century, When Hitler Fought Stalin, part 2 - Spiral of Terror

Four-part documentary series looking at the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War, containing new information and film footage (some of it colour footage). BBC / History Channel / NDR co-production. Chapter 2 of 4: This edition chronicles the Battle for Moscow, and explores why more civilians died in this war than any other in history.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 1999

Language : English, German, Russian

Hitler - A Career

סרט תעודי הנלווה לביוגראפיה של היטלר מאת יואכים פסט (1973). ניתוח ההיסטוריה של הרייך ה-3 ובחינת הדינמיקה הפרטית והציבורית של הנאציזם. מבוסס כולו על סרטי ארכיון, הסרט כולל קטעים רבים המלווים בסאונד סינכרוני מקורי, כמו למשל נאום מוקדם של היטלר בהיכל הספורט של ברלין.

Director : Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer

Production Year : 1977

Duration : 151

Language : English, German

The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45

This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future. It follows the plight of Europe’s Jews during the terrifying period from 1933 until the final defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. Never before had the world seen such contempt for human life on such a grand scale, the murder of an estimated 6 million Jews, with countless others persecuted. During the 1930s a wave of national fervour swept through a tumultuous Germany; people looked for answers, and the politicians were all too willing to point the finger of blame towards the Jewish population. Few, if any,...

Director : Dieter Hildebrandt

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 82

Language : English

The World Of The Thirties - The Fuehrer's Germany

Episode in the series "The World of the Thirties" which deals with the rise of fascism in Europe, the empowerment of the Nazi party against a background of economic hardship, the rise of Hitler to power, the arming of Germany, the suppression of resisters, fascist supporters of the Nazis outside of Germany, annexation of Austria, the escape of Jewish intellectuals from Germany, Crystal Night, Nazi culture and art.

Production Year : 1987

Duration : 24

Language : English

The Final Solution

In a direct, effective approach to the holocaust and its meaning, this historical documentary features film clips on the Warsaw ghetto, the gas chambers, bodies bulldozed into mass graves, and other Nazi atrocities, and contrasts these silent scenes with propaganda tirades by Hitler and his minions. Long-time Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal introduces the documentary in straightforward language that emphasizes the importance of never forgetting these horrors in the hope that nothing like this will ever be repeated again

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 60

Language : English

German Newsreels no. 631 (7/10/42), 632 (14/10/42), 633 (21/10/42).

Newsreel no. 631 (7 October, 1942): Foreign minister von Ribbentrop receives the Italian and Japanese ambassadors on the second anniversary of the signing of the three-power pact, and predicts a new order in Europe. Rommel reports to Hitler and speaks to domestic and foreign reporters about events in North Africa. At the Berlin sports palace, the 1942-1943 winter relief drive opens - Goebbles reports on amounts given and disbursed in previous years and Hitler affirms homeland support for the front-line soldier. In the northern sector of the eastern front, a water conveyor is devised by soldiers and food is...

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 63 64

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 629 (23/9/42), 630 (30/9/42).

Newsreel no. 629 (23 September, 1942): Wounded soldiers take an NSDAP-sponsored excursion in Carinthia. British landing attempt at Tobruk is repulsed by coastal batteries. Stalingrad: tanks and infantry thrust into city; street fighting rages; bombers attack; deep ravines; Stalingrad in flames. (14 min) Newsreel no. 630 (30 September, 1942): African front: freighters taking equipment from Italy to Africa are attacked by British bombers, and one is shot down; railway to the El Alamein Front; supply depot; Rommel, Kesselring, and fighter-pilot Marseille; Alexandria is bombed. On the...

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 33

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 578 (1/10/41), 579 (8/10/41

Newsreel no. 578 (1 October, 1941): German transports in Petsamo, Finland's northernmost port. General Dietl, Hero of Narvik, with his troops. Daring invasion of the islands of Oesel (Saaremaa) and moon (Muhu) in the gulf of Riga; detonating mines; German aviators' bombs smash coast defenses; the old Teutonic fortress in Arensburg, the capital of Oesel. Krasnpodaisk Palace, summer residence of the czars. German forces converge on Leningrad from all directions as the yoke around the city is tightened. German bombers attack. General von Brauchitsch and General Weichs. Railroad engineer units work behind the...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 61

Language : English, German

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