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Director : Claude Collin, Denis Cugnod

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 26

Language : French

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Part 2

Second part of a four-hour documentary film about the fugitive Nazi criminal Klaus Barbi who served as head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France. Barbi, who was known as "The Butcher of Lyons", is responsible for the deaths of people in the French underground and thousands of Jews. The film describes his life from childhood in Germany until his trial in 1983, after he succeeded for 40 years to evade judgment. Winner of the Oscar Award in the category best documentary film in 1988.

Director : Marcel Ophüls

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 126

Language : English, French, Spanish

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Part 1

The first part of a four-hour documentary film about the escaped Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbi who served as head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France. Barbi, who was known as "The Butcher of Lyons", is responsible for the deaths of members of the French Resistance and thousands of Jews. The film describes his life from childhood in Germany until his trial in 1983, after he succeeded for around 40 years in evading trial. Winner of the 1988 Oscar Award as best film in the documentary film category.

Director : Marcel Ophüls

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 137

Language : French

Hazak - Les Eclaireurs Israelites De France

Documentary film that tells about the activity of the organization of Jewish scouts in France during the Holocaust. Includes original films.

Director : Arnstan Georges

Production Year : 1946

Duration : 21

Language : French

Colette

A short documentary. For 74-years, former French Resistance member Colette Marin-Catherine refused to step foot in Germany. That changed when Lucie, a young history student enterd her life and convinced her to visit the concentration camp where the Nazis killed her brother.

Director : Anthony Giacchino

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 24

Language : French, German

Herbert Traube, le destin français d'un indésirable

סרט תיעודי משולב אנימציה

Director : Clara Laurent

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 88

Language : French

The Art of Silence

A documentary film. The film follows the background of Marcel Marceau. His father was killed in Auschwitz. Marceau joined the French Resistance, and together with his cousin, smuggled Jewish children to safety. The film also sheds a light upon Marceau’s life and form, which inspired and accompanied several generations of artists and lives to this day.

Director : Maurizius Staerkle-Drux

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 81

Language : English, French, German

Valiant Hearts

A feature film. It follows the odyssey of six Jewish children hidden during World War Two who found refuge . in the Chambord castle and its park , among the hidden works of art of the Louvre. The main character of the film is based on Rose Valland, French art historian, member of the French Resistance who recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France. The film was shown at the Jewish Film Festival ,2022

Director : Mona Achache

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 87

Language : French

Yardena's Journey

A documentary. For her 70th birthday, Yardena Arazi embarks on a journey with her cousin Tamar in the footsteps of their mothers and heroines - Yvette and Fanny Loinger. During the journey they uncover the stories of other Jewish women who all endeavored for one cause - saving hundreds of Jewish children. The story of the Loinger family, to which Yardena's mother was born, is rare and unique - unbeknownst to the Nazis, four members of one family rescued hundreds of Jewish children from death and risked their lives in doing so. The fact that three of them are women makes this story even more astonishing. A story...

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 65

Language : English, French, German, Hebrew

Colette - The French resistance fighter confronting fascism

A short documentary. At the age of 90, Colette Marin Catherine confronts her past by visiting the German concentration camp Mittelbau Dora where her brother was killed. As a young girl, she fought Hitler's Nazis as a member of the French Resistance. For 74 years, she has refused to step foot in Germany, but that changed. Prepared to reopen old wounds and revisit the terrors of that time, Marin Catherine offers lessons for us all. The film has won the Academy Award in the category of best documentary short, 2021.

Director : Anthony Giacchino

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 25

Language : French

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