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Gladiators of WWII - The Free French Forces

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" focuses on the free French movement during WW2. Led by General De Gaulle, the Free French refused to accept the armistice that France had signed with Nazi Germany and were branded as traitors by the official Vichy government. Their symbol was Joan of Arc Cross of Lorraine. Few thousand men crossed the Channel to join the fight in Britain. In the Libyan Desert in June 42, Rommel was driving the British 8th Army back towards Egypt. But at Bir Hacheim he met a pocket of fierce resistance: less than 4,000 Free French troops. They also fought in Central...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 48

Language : English

Battlefield, Battles that Won the Second World War, Series One, Part 1 - The Battle of France

Blitzkrieg's most astonishing triumph, establishing Hitler as unassailable within continental Europe

Director : Andrew Aitken, Dave Flitton, Justin Mccarthy

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 116

Language : English

Drancy - Last Stage Before the Abyss

Documentary film about the internment camp Drancy. Arrested French Jews were sent from there to death camps. The facts are conveyed by using survivors' testimonies, archival photographs, documents, newspaper articles. Also, the film presents significant data about the camp in terms of the numbers of Jews deported. The film won praise at the 16th International Historical Film Festival in Pessac, November 2002.

Director : Cécile Clairval - Milhaud*

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 97

Language : French

One Picture, One story: Montoire, The Missing Picture

A historical analysis of the meeting between Petain and Hitler at Montoire (24.10.1940), showing that Vichy's national revolution included a policy of collaboration.

Director : Christian Delage

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 15

Language : French

A Song for You

In 1943 the Karp family escaped the Nazis by crossing the Pyrenees on foot with the help of the French Resistance. For five harrowing years, they were on the run, sometimes only steps ahead of Hitler’s troops. Carrying the burden of their parent’s trauma, the filmmaker and her sisters return to Europe to confront events of the past in an attempt to separate them from the present. The story is told through interviews with her mother, segments of a book her father wrote, home movies, photographs, documents and historical footage. The mother’s songs are threaded throughout the film. Singing brought relief and hope...

Director : Sharon Karp

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 87

Language : English