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בתקופת מלחמת העולם השנייה, ארול פלין מגלם את דמותו של ז'אן פיקאר – קרימינל שנתפס ויודע שהוא עומד להיות מוצא להורג. פיקאר מצליח להימלט מהגיליוטינה, אבל פקח המשטרה בונה עולה על עקבותיו. בדרכם חזרה לפריז, מתברר שפטריוטים צרפתיים פוצצו גשר שמהווה נקודה אסטרטגית חשובה עבור הגרמנים. הללו חוטפים 100 אזרחים צרפתיים תמימים, ומאיימים להוציאם להורג אחד אחד, עד שמפוצצי הגשר יסגירו עצמם. פיקאר מוצא הזדמנות לטהר את שמו ולמות כפטריוט

Director : Raoul Walsh

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 102

Language : English

Julia of Warsaw

Meeting in Warsaw with Julia Pirotte, committed to alongside the French Resistance during the war, she photographed the daily lives of his fellow combat as well as scenes of ordinary life in time of the Occupation. It reflects his own history, standing on Leica III while accompanying everywhere.

Director : Jean-Pierre Krief

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 26

Language : French

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

A Matter of Time - Common Fate, Chapter 2

This 2-part documentary film tells the little-known story of the Jewish communities of North Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) during World War Two, revealing how, had fate not intervened, it was only “a matter of time” until they would share the fate of their fellow Jews in Europe. Through archival and new footage and stills, extensive interviews with surviving eyewitnesses and historians, as well as computer-generated animation, the film depicts Jewish life in North Africa and describes the evidence of plans by German and Italian occupiers to carry out “the final solution” far from the shores...

Director : סרז' אנקרי

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 55

Language : Hebrew

When Willie Comes Marching Home

A feature film comedy. When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all. Nominated and won as follows: Best Writing, Motion Picture Story Academy Awards, USA 1951. Best Actor - Comedy Golden Globes, USA 1951. Winner of the Grand Prix at Locarno International Film Festival 1950.

Director : John Ford

Production Year : 1950

Duration : 82

Language : English

The Stalking of the Red Poster

In mid-November 1943, the French Vichy police arrested 23 Resistance members of the "Manouchian Group", called after its commander, Missak Manouchian. 11 of them were Jews. On 21.2.1944, after 3 months of tortures, the 23 were tried and executed. In the spring of 1944, the Vichy and German authorities printed an estimated 15,000 copies of a propaganda poster called Affiche Rouge ("Red Poster") which claimed that the resistance was headed by foreigners, Jews, unemployed people and criminals who conspirated against French life and the sovereignty of France. The campaign, however, seemd to have had the opposite...

Director : Jorge Amat

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 124

Language : French

Medal of the Righteous among the Nations to Boissier, Puech and Guiraud - June 15, 1995 Ceremony at the Temple of Lasalle

Director : Yann Sinic

Production Year : 1995

Language : French

The Resistance Nest - A Village Helps Jews

Survivors and rescuers tell in this documentary their stories: Gabi Barraud (forged papers), Joseph Atlas (refugee in Chambon with his mother and brother), Hannah deer, which tells how they.

Director : Anja Klabunde

Production Year : 2004

Language : German

Post War Destinies

A documentary film about the resistance and rescue in Strasbourg, the capital of the Alsace region in north-eastern France. Includes eye-witness testimonies, photographs, drawings and archival footage.With: Claude Wolfe, Germaine Rohrbach, Josy Offerle Utz, Armand Utz, Tonio Leclanche, Louise Soulier Martinon, Micheline lemousy Vaillant, Guy Thomas, Mado Tourette Moreau, Leon Strauss, Louis Hauser, Alfred Wahl, Camille Claus, Victor Beyer, Emil Roegel, Gilbert Lastique, Pierre Alban Thomas, Paul Minges, Raymond Fraisse, Robert Gandar, Lucie Aubrac, Lucien Braun, Maud Begon, Jacotte Suramy Lignorat, Michel...

Director : Barcha Bauer

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 52

Language : French

Gladiators of WWII - The Free French Forces

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" focuses on the free French movement during WW2. Led by General De Gaulle, the Free French refused to accept the armistice that France had signed with Nazi Germany and were branded as traitors by the official Vichy government. Their symbol was Joan of Arc Cross of Lorraine. Few thousand men crossed the Channel to join the fight in Britain. In the Libyan Desert in June 42, Rommel was driving the British 8th Army back towards Egypt. But at Bir Hacheim he met a pocket of fierce resistance: less than 4,000 Free French troops. They also fought in Central...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 48

Language : English

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