Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Story of survivors from liberation to rehabilitation, told via 5 testimonies of survivors integrated with original excerpts.

results.listIds.director : Gideon Drori, Michael Lev Tov

results.listIds.year : 1990

results.listIds.duration : 60

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

The Truth About Auschwitz

Program of the German television network ZDF which was produced in 1995 to mark 50 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Survey of the camp activities through survivor testimonies, testimonies of former SS men, photographs, archival films, a memorial ceremony.

results.listIds.director : Guido Knopp

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 56

results.listIds.lang : German

Europe, The Mighty Continent - Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Volume 10 in "Europe: The Mighty Continent", a 13 parts documentary TV series that examines the history of the continent. Actor Peter Ustinov and historian John Terrine bring to life the trends, technology and tides of fortune that have so drastically reshaped Europe since 1900. The Allies - The End of War: Betrayed by Russia during her heroic Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Poland was occupied by her betrayers. So fell Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, the rest of the Balkans, half of Germany and half of Vienna. East Europe exchanged the tyranny of Hitler for that of Stalin. Britain went to the polls, cast out the...

results.listIds.director : John Terraine

results.listIds.year : 1975

results.listIds.duration : 52

results.listIds.lang : English

Europe: The Mighty Continent - The English, D-Day and the Holocaust.

This series traces the history of Europe between 1900 and 1975 and includes film clips and photographs from documentary archives. Segment analyzes the events of World War II in Europe focusing on the unprecedented destruction of civilian populations. Discusses the Nazi extermination camps and their brutality against Jewish and Slavic peoples

results.listIds.director : Brian Lewis

results.listIds.year : 1975

results.listIds.duration : 52

results.listIds.lang : English

The Holocaust In Memory Of Millions

Veteran journalist Walter Cronkite, speaking from the then new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, narrates this story of a Holocaust. Historical records, original footage and personal photographs combine to chronicle the rise of the Nazi Party and their genocidal plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Oral histories from survivors present tales of bravery in the concentration camps. Also include are an interview with Noble Price laureate Elie Wiesel and the inauguration ceremony of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with the presence of president Clinton.

results.listIds.director : Brian Blake

results.listIds.year : 1993

results.listIds.duration : 90

results.listIds.lang : English

People's Century - Master Race (1933), Total War (1939), Brave new World (1945)

Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...

results.listIds.director : Jonathan Lewis, John Bridcut

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 107

results.listIds.lang : English

End of all Roads

Documentary film that deals with the torturous path of Jewish Shoah survivors from Europe to Mandatory Palestine 1945-1948 through testimonies, archival films and a focus on the story of one illegal immigration ship - "They Will Not Frighten Us".

results.listIds.director : Yigal Burstein

results.listIds.year : 1981

results.listIds.duration : 74

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Reputations - Simon Wiesenthal - The Man Who Hunted Nazis

Personal story of Simon Wiesenthal and his life's work - pursuing Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice through interviews with Wiesenthal, conversations with eyewitnesses, paintings, photographs and archival films.

results.listIds.director : Saskia Baron

results.listIds.year : 1997

results.listIds.duration : 57

results.listIds.lang : English, German

The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

Based on 1988 book of the same title, this documentary tells the story of Anne Frank starting at the point at which her diary stops. Including family photographs and archival films.

results.listIds.director : Willy Lindwer

results.listIds.year : 1988

results.listIds.duration : 71

results.listIds.lang : Dutch

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

results.listIds.director : William Miles, Nina Rosenblum

results.listIds.year : 1992

results.listIds.duration : 75

results.listIds.lang : English

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