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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

הקלטות הנאצים - פרק 1

סדרת תעודה. בסדרה נחשפות לראשונה עדויות על השמדת יהודי אירופה מפי הנאצים עצמם ובזמן אמת. עדויות אלה הוקלטו בחשאי על ידי המודיעין הבריטי במבצע ראשון מסוגו.

Director : ירון ניסקי, דני ליבר

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 61

Language : English, German, Hebrew

הקלטות הנאצים - פרק 1

Director : ירון ניסקי, דני ליבר

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 61

Language : English, German, Hebrew

הקלטות הנאצים - פרק 1

Director : ירון ניסקי, דני ליבר

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 61

Language : English, German, Hebrew

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

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