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A feature film and a thriller. Set during World War 2 in an underground German blockhouse. Six men of wildly varying nationalities and walks of life are trapped in the blockhouse-and remain so for over six years. Though their prison is well stocked with food and beverages, the mortality rate is appalling, the victims dying more from loneliness and fear than anything else. This Film was based on a novel by Jean Paul Ciebert which was inspired by a true story.

Director : Clive Rees

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 93

Language : English

War of the Century, When Hitler Fought Stalin, part 3 - Learning to Win

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). GB, BBC/History Channel/NDR co-production. 3 of 4: This programme chronicles the horrors of the Battle for Stalingrad in 1942, a turning point in the conflict between the two countries.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 1999

Language : English, German, Russian

Band of Brothers - 9, Why We Fight

Episode nine in the HBO-BBC co-production television series that is based on true occurrences and tell the story of Easy Company, an American infantry company during WWII. The full activity of the company is explored starting from the initial basic training stage through the invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and to the liberation of Europe. Among the producers of the series, are director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks.

Director : David Frankel

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 75

Language : English

Memory of the Camps

A segment of the PBS program Frontline that was broadcast in March 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. The film uses film footage cut from the original liberation film footage held in vaults in London largely since the end of the war and documents liberation scenes mainly from Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau. Many of the images are graphic in the extreme. Narration by British actor Trevor Howard.

Director : Sidney Bernstein

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 60

Language : English

The Diary of Anne Frank

The first filmed adaptation to the diary of Anne Frank. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett wrote the script to this film, which was based on their very successful Broadway play. The film describes the life in hiding of the Frank family, Van-Dam family, and Herr Dussel until the day of their arrest. They experienced crowdedness, tensions, food shortage, delicate relations, despair and hopes. The film won 3 academy awards, and is regarded today of Hollywood classic

Director : George Stevens

Production Year : 1959

Duration : 180

Language : English

Night and Fog

This film is among the first documentary films about the Holocaust and one of the best known in the field of Holocaust cinema. Through an integration of archival films of the Nazi concentration camps and color photographs of the camps and their surroundings around 10 years after the war, the film presents the historical reality of the Final Solution in a direct and revelatory manner. Relative to its time "Night and Fog" was considered innovative in its universal and humanistic approach and it served as a source of inspiration for many documentary films about the Holocaust.

Director : Alain Resnais

Production Year : 1955

Duration : 29

Language : French

Medicine In The Kovno Ghetto

A lecture by Dr. Jack Brauns on the topic of medicine in the Kovno Ghetto. The film is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Moses Brauns (1896-1982) the father of Dr. Brauns, a physician and historian in the Kovno Ghetto. An introduction by historian Martin Gilbert."

Director : Jeff Goldschen

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 24 25

Language : English

Little America - The Flourishing and Destruction of the Jewish Community in Mezritch

Documentary film that deals with the history of the Jews of Mezricz, a town north of Lublin, Poland. The film tells about the lives of the Jews in the town before the war and during it, the cultural and educational life, welfare institutions, Zionist activity, trade and industry, production of brushes, the Nazi occupation and liberation. The film is presented by Micha Friedman and Efraim Sidon. Includes archival films and testimonies of survivors.

Director : David Tor

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 54

Language : Hebrew

Little America - The Flourishing and Destruction of the Jewish Community in Mezritch

Documentary film that deals with the history of the Jews of Mezricz, a town north of Lublin, Poland. The film tells about the lives of the Jews in the town before the war and during it, the cultural and educational life, welfare institutions, Zionist activity, trade and the brush manufacturing industry, the Nazi occupation and the liberation. The film is presented by Micha Friedman and Efraim Sidon. Includes archival films and testimonies of survivors.

Director : David Tor

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 54

Language : Hebrew

Paradise Camp

The story of Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia through interviews with survivors, archival footage and photos, paintings and drawings by camp inmates, and excerpts from the Nazi propaganda film.

Director : Frank Heimans, Paul Rea

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 56

Language : English

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