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Gladiators Of WWII - Special Operations Executive

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" focuses on The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a World War II organization initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940, to conduct warfare by means other than direct military engagement. SOE mission was to encourage and facilitate espionage and sabotage behind enemy lines and to serve as the core of a resistance movement in Britain itself (the Auxiliary Units) in the possible event of an Axis invasion. The Headquarters was set up in an anonymous building in London's 64 Baker street. Another important London base was Aston House,...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 49

Language : English

Battle of the Bulge

A Hollywood war film inspired by real events, but known to be not very faithful to the historical truth of World War II Battle of the Bulge. A Panzer brigade, led by the fictional Colonel Hessler (played by Robert Shaw and inspired by real Waffen SS officer Joachim Peiper) leads a German secret counter-attack against the Allied front in the heavily wooded Ardennes sector of Belgium/Luxembourg. An American Intelligence officer (Henri Fonda) tries in vain to persuade his superiors of the German intentions. The Americans are surprised, with heavy casualties. Hessler's initial success ends as his unit runs out of...

Director : Ken Annakin

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 167

Language : English

Gestures of Reconciliation - International Short Film Competition, Disc 1

סדרת סרטים קצרים.

Director : Katsiaryna Kamockaya, Viktor Korzuon‬, אסתי עמרמי, דנה לבנט, Hans Stützer, Daniel Erb, Moonika Siimets, Priit Pääsuke, Jaanis Valk

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 117

Language : Belarusian, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Russian

The Ritchie Boys

This documentary tells the story of the elite American information unit which was mostly made up of German and Czech Jewish Academics who immigrated before the war. The members of the unit, who were trained in the Ritchie Camp in Maryland, were involved with planning ways to break the SS morale and they are today credited with being the ones who succeeded in bringing an early end to the war. A number of people from the unit, today in their 80s, meet and tell their stories in this film. Includes photographs, archival footage and testimonies.

Director : Christian Bauer

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 93

Language : English, German

שש דקות לחצות

A thriller. Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem

Director : Andy Goddard

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 99

Language : English

All the Light We Cannot See

Mini television series. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at...

Director : Shawn Levy

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 123

Language : French

Sonia's Report

סרט תיעודי. סיפורה של הסוכנת היהודיה , שריגלה עבור הסובייטים בשנות ה30 וה40 של המאה העשרים ובן בשנות המלחמה הקרה. הכינוי שלה היה "סוניה", אך שמה האמיתי היה אוּרְסוּלָה קוּצִ'ינְסְקִי.

Director : Chris Watson

Production Year : 1990

Language : English

Occasional Spies

A docu drama. A Second World War less-known story about ordinary people recruited by British Intelligence and sent in a mission in German-occupied Eastern Europe, to find escape routes for the Allies’ war prisoners and organize the resistance. In the spring of 1944, the fate of many Allied pilots who fell in Eastern Europe was unknown. The MI9 office in Cairo decides to recruit agents from among the Zionists who had emigrated from these countries to Palestine before the war. Their mission was to find the prisoners and organize a potential escape.

Director : Oana Giurgiu

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 119

Language : English

אויבים - כאן 11, עונה 2 פרק - המופתי

סדרת התעודה אויבים, המביאה את סיפורם של מנהיגי ערב, חוזרת בעונה חדשה וחושפת מי היה המופתי, חאג' אמין אל חוסייני. האיש שהפך את הסכסוך לדתי, תבע את המונח "אל אקצה בסכנה" ושיתף פעולה עם השלטון הנאצי

Director : ירון ניסקי

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 55

Language : Arabic, English, Hebrew

האיש שלא היה

סרט עלילתי באורך מלא. סיפור האמיתי של מבצע קציצה בעיצומה של מלחמת העולם השנייה, המודיעין הבריטי ובראשו יואן מונטגיו (קולין פירת') וצ'ארלס צ'ולמונדליי (מת'יו מקפדיין, "היורשים"), מחליטים לרקום תחבולה שתערים על היטלר והמודיעין הגרמני. התוכנית, שכוללת גופה, מסמכים מזוייפים והרבה תעוזה, יכולה להיות כישלון טוטאלי שיגרום לאובדן עצום של חיי אדם – או הצלחת כבירה שתוביל לנקודת מפנה במלחמה ותשנה לחלוטין את מאזן הכוחות. עם גורל העולם על הפרק, "מבצע קציצה" יוצא לדרך. "האיש שלא היה" מספר את הסיפור של מבצע קציצה המפורסם, מותחן ריגול מעורר השראה על פי ספרו של בן מקנטייר המבוסס על אירועים אמיתיים....

Director : John Madden

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 128

Language : English

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