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Documentary film dealing with the “Massacre in Katyn Forest” – Approximately 4,000 Polish officers, captured by the Soviets, were killed. The massacre was carried out in 1940 by the NKVD in Katyn Forest which is situated west of Smolensk. It was verified by the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave by the Germans in 1943. This caused accusations of guilt to be exchanged between the Soviets and the Germans. An investigation by US Congress in the 1950s revealed that the massacre was carried out by the secret Soviet police under instruction from the Soviet Government. Only in 1989, during the rule of...

Director : Anna Teresa Pietraszek

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 51

Language : Polish

Pogrom is Murder? Kielce 4.07.1946

A documentary depicting the murder of Jews in Kielce in 1946, based on the latest studies of Polish Institute Instytut Pamięci Narodowej folk-IPN, interviews with historians and experts, photographs and archival documents and maps of the city.

Director : Artur Janicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 32

Language : Polish

The Katyn Lie

A documentary film about the Katyn massacre: about 4,000 Polish officers that were killed on Stalin's command by the NKVD in Katyn forest, not far from Smolensk, Russia, at the start of 1940. The Polish soldiers were captured by the Russians when Germany overtook Poland in September 1939. When the mass graves were discovered by the German forces in April 1943, the exiled Polish Government demanded an investigation into who had carried out the murders. An American investigation by Congress discovered that the NKVD was responsible. As a result of Gorbochev's "Glasnost" policy, the Soviet Union released...

Director : Michael Kloft, Bengt Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1993

Language : Hebrew

In the Forest of Katyn

Documentary film by the director Andrzej Vejda that deals with the massacre of around 4,000 Polish officers who were murdered on Stalin's orders by the NKVD in the Katyn forest not far from Smolensk, Russia, at the beginning of 1940. Includes testimonies by the wives of the victims and archival photographs.

Director : Marcel Lozinski, Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 54

Language : Polish

Katyn

Director : Witold Zadrowski

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 43

Language : French

German Newsreels no. 574 (3/9/41), 577 (24/9/41).

Newsreel no. 574 (3 September, 1941): New U-boats launched to reinforce the Atlantic Front. Other boats return to port. Admiral Doenitz decorates victorious U-boat commanders. The bastion in Narva that was built by the Teutonic Order in 14th century. Crossing of the Luga River. Artillery prepares the attack on Luga. Soviet bunkers taken by the Germans. German bombers attack the St. Petersburg - Moscow rail line. Bunker Soviet teams are smoked out. Chudovo falls. Hitler hosts Mussolini at his headquarters; a briefing by General Jodl; a visit of at the base of the Army Commando in Chief von Brauchitsch; a...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 62

Language : English, German

Flowers during the occupation

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Igor' Grigor'ev

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 74

Language : Russian

900 ימים

A documentary film. The Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities. That myth is in painful contrast with the horrific truth they were forbidden to mention all these years.

Director : Jessica Gorter

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 77

Language : Russian