This 2-part documentary film tells the little-known story of the Jewish communities of North Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) during World War Two, revealing how, had fate not intervened, it was only “a matter of time” until they would share the fate of their fellow Jews in Europe.
Through archival and new footage and stills, extensive interviews with surviving eyewitnesses and historians, as well as computer-generated animation, the film depicts Jewish life in North Africa and describes the evidence of plans by German and Italian occupiers to carry out “the final solution” far from the shores...
Historical analyze of the trips done by Marshal Petain between 1940 - 1944, and thought on the impact of the footages filmed during his trips
and controlled by the state.
Footages , newsreels.
This documentary, made entirely from newsreel produced by the Nazis and French collaborators, was edited by the French director Claude Chabrol and presents events of the times as the Nazis and the French collaborators wanted them to be seen. Marshal Philippe Petain is a main character in the film.
A documentary. This movie is about the hidden memory of anti-Semitism and Right-wing nationalism in Québec during the 1930s and 1940s. Esther Delisle is a Phd candidate at Laval University, and caused a scandal when she revealed how Québec’s nationalist leadership and its mouthpiece "Le Devoir" were unabashedly pro-fascist, pro-Pétain and anti-Semitic during this fateful period. This movie shares the testimonies of people who lived through these troubled times, adding comments by historians and academics who dispute Delisle’s findings. It is also an attempt to understand how and why Québec nationalism...
סרט תיעודי אודות היבט שלא נחקר לעומק עד כה- שיתוף הפעולה הכלכלי בין צרפת לגרמניה הנאצית בימי משטר וישי. עכשיו, משנפתחו הארכיונים , ניתן ללמוד יותר על שיתוף הפעולה הזה. נקודת המבט היא של שבעים וחמש שנים לאחר הנעשה. כך שהתוצאה כבר ידועה. מעבר להאשמת משתפי הפעולה והאדרת ההתנגדות , יש לזכור כי המציאות מורכבת הרבה יותר.