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This documentary film is a collection of 8 films which offer persuasive evidence that, so far, these standards have not been met. Films cover events from the onset of violence in Kosovo (preceding the NATO intervention in 1999), until the most recent terrorist attacks committed by Albanian extremists in 2005, and are, in fact, a unique and exclusive video document about some of the crucial aspects of the current Kosovo crisis.

Director : Ninoslav Randjelovic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 160

Language : English, Serbian

One Blood, One Flame - The Oral Histories of the Yugoslav Gypsies before, During and After WWII, Part 3

In Volume III, there are the stories of many Gypsies who, according to their customs and tales, came from various regions in Old India and from many unrelated castes. Their stories in Volume III show for the first time in Gypsy studies that the "Roma" were not one people, with one language, nor with the same traditions. From their customs, it is possible to recognize Kashmiri, Punjabi and Rajasthan castes from northwest India; the Gond, Ghasia and Sais castes from central India, and even the Tamil from south India.

Director : Paul Polansky

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 59

Language : Croatian, Serbian, Serbian-Croatian, Slovenian

World's Noblemen

Jews, the most persecuted people in the world, find salvation in the Albanian lands during World War The Second. The cult of Besa, hospitability and inter-religious tolerance become a myth for the protection of people who granted civilization to the world. The persecuted Jewish families are sheltered in Albanian families, protecting them with their lives. The Holocaust Museum in Yad Vashem, today honors the descendants of many Albanian families who helped Jews, with the prize "World's Noblemen".

Director : Mrika Krasniqi

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 47

Language : Albanian

The Woman from Sarajevo

This documentary tells of Zinbe Hardaga, the first Moslem to be awarded the title “Righteous Among the Nations” and members of the Kavilio family, Jewish survivors who found shelter from the Nazis in her home. 50 years after the WWII, with the outbreak of war in the Balkans, the Kavilio family with the help of Yad-Vashem, the Joint and the Israeli Government, enabled Hardaga, her daughter Sara, son-in-law and little granddaughter, Stella, to escape. A year after arriving in Israel, at the age of 76, Zinbe died. She was buried in a Jewish cemetery. Her daughter Sara, son-in-law and granddaughter Stella converted...

Director : אלה אלתרמן

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 56

Language : English, Hebrew, Serbian-Croatian

מיכויליס בהצגת "המלך ליר" ביידיש

סרט תעודי בהפקת ה - Spiegel TV העוסק בפיגועי ה- 11 בספטמבר, 2001. הסרט מתאר את הרקע לפיגועים, התכנון הממושך ומי שעמדו מאחורי הטרור האיסלמי בזמן הפיגועים. כולל תצלומים, פרשנויות מומחים ומסמכים.

Director : Karin Assmann, Britta Sandberg

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 76

Language : German

Pillar of Fire, Part 2 - The Dream 1914 - 1929

Produced by the Israeli Television, this documentary series deals with the history of Zionism till the establishment of the State of Israel. First episode of this 4-years complicated production aired in 1981 and created a public stir and controversy regarding the presentation of the Sephardim Jewry contribution to the Zionist movement. “Pillar of Fire” us based on archival films and photos takes from 30 archives, both in Israel and abroad, interviews and illustrations. This short 7-episodes version of the series was produced for foreign markets. Narration by British actor Ian MacCellen.

Director : Nathan Lifshitz

Production Year : 1986

Language : English

Pillar of Fire, Part 1 - The Jew Returns, the Arab awakens 1895 - 1914

Director : Gideon Drori

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 60

Language : English

The Forgotten Resistance - The Mosque of Paris 1940-1944

Documentary film that tells about a Paris mosque in which children, mostly Jews, hid in its basement between 1940-1944 and about the opposition of the Muslims and the head of the mosque, Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, to the Nazi occupation. Includes a short excerpt from an archival film that documents resistance fighters during the liberation of Paris.

Director : Derri Berkani

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 25

Language : French

A Tale from Beslenei

סרט תיעודי. סיפור הצלתם של ילדים יהודים במלחמת העולם השניה על ידי מוסלמים צ'רקסים, מנקודת מבטו של צ'רקסי-ישראלי: זוהיר תחאוכו, שהקים בכפר-כמא מרכז למורשת הצ'רקסית. זוהיר חבר לפרופסור יאיר אורון החוקר מקרי ג'נוסייד, והשניים אוספים עדויות על הסיפור, ומנסים להביא להכרה במעשה הנעלה שקרה בבסלניי: הצלתם של 32 ילדים, חלקם יהודים, בידי תושבי הכפר.

Director : ציפרוני, שרה

Sevap / Mitzvah

A short drama film. In 1941 Nazi-occupied Bosnia, a Muslim woman risks her life to save her Jewish friends and is saved by them in turn 50 years later. Inspired by a true story.

Director : Sabina Vajrača

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 20

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