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The Making of The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazi's for saving the lives of nearly 2,000 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.

Director : Jan Parkinson

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 15

Language : English

ילדי האש שלי

This documentary records the contribution of the Podhale region (north of the Tatra mountains) to Poland's liberation starting with the formation of Jozef Pilsudski's Legion to which both the smallholders (gorals) and the local landowners belonged. The legendary First Regiment of Podhale Riflemen created in 1918 consisted of inhabitants of this region. During the Second World War Podhale Underground fought German Nazism on many fronts. After the war, when Poland was militarily occupied by Soviet communists, partisan fighters continued their activities. A partisan detachment nicknamed "Ogien" distinguished itself...

Director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 40

Language : Polish

Power of the Powerless

Siła Bezsilnych (Power of the Powerless) series tells the story of the Polish resistance movement against the Communist government during World War II. This chapter is dedicated to Joseph Kuras, nicknamed "Fire", who was the commander of the partisan organization "Lightning". The organization acted to release anti-communist underground prisoners from the "Saint Michala" prison in the center of Krakow near military camps and secret police headquarters with not a single shot fired. The last living witness Zbigniew Plobodah describes the action. The history of "Fire" reflects the history of post-war Poland. The...

Director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish

Extraordinary People from Oświęcim - How They Aided Auschwitz Prisoners

This is a film about how the residents of the land of Oświęcim rescued Auschwitz prisoners. Oświęcim is a town in southern Poland, situated some 50 kilometres west of Kraków. Outside Poland, it is sometimes still called Auschwitz, its German name, in reference to the Auschwitz concentration camp built there by Nazi Germany during World War II. Auschwitz Museum historians have managed to establish the names of over 1,200 Poles from Oświęcim and the vicinity who aided prisoners. The Germans arrested at least 177 people in revenge. Sixty-two of them perished in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. One of the...

Director : Stefan Wilkanowicz

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

Desperate Journey

אקשן בריחה בכיכובם של ארול פלין ומי שעתיד להיות נשיא ארה"ב, רונלד רייגן. קבוצה של טייסים במלחמת העולם השנייה, נופלת בשבי הנאצים. לאחר שהם מצליחים להימלט, רודף אחריהם מפקד גרמני נחוש.

Director : Raoul Walsh

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 107

Language : English

Pope John Paul II

Filmed in Rome and Austria, this TV biopic tells the story of Pope John Paul II, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 16.10.1978 until his death in 2005. The story begins in 1938, when teen-aged Karol Wojtyla, a would-be actor, decides instead to enter the priesthood. Played from age 26 onward by actor Albert Finney, Wojtyla spends WWII years in the Polish anti-Nazi movement. He continues battling for his beliefs with the Communist-ruled Polish government in the postwar years. In 1978, Wojtyla is elected to succeed Pope John Paul I, thereby becoming the first non-Italian pope in 4 centuries. Relations between...

Director : Herbert Wise

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 150

Language : English

Canal

This is the 2nd in famed Polish Andrzej Wajda WWII trilogy (preceded by “A Generation” [55] and followed by “Ashes and Diamonds” [58]). Set in Warsaw during the last days of the Polish uprising in the summer of 1944, the film tells of Polish civilians and soldiers who were no more capable of pursuing the resistance to the Nazi occupation and retreat from a certain death to a relative liberty through the city’s sewers for the “last hours of their lives” as declared in the early in the film by the voice over, hours of suffering, treason, despair, suicide and death. Wajda was awarded the “Special Jury Prize” at the...

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1957

Duration : 96

Language : Polish

Nightmare - The Immigration Of Joachim And Rachel

Seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Joachim and his younger sister Rachael, this young viewers' drama follows the rescue story of the Jewish brother and sister. After the arrest of their parents, the two escape the Warsaw Ghetto through the underground sewers, hidden by Polish underground.

Director : Tom Robertson

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 25

Language : English

Jews in the Warsaw Uprising 1944

מקומם של לוחמים יהודים ב"מרד וורשה הפולני", 1.8.1944 - 2.10.1944, אשר דוכא ע"י הגרמנים. עדויות ראייה, תצלומי וסרטי ארכיון.

Director : Anna Ferens, Anna Kowalewska-Onaszkiewicz

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

Cursed Soldiers. Fate of Rebellious

סרט דוקומנטרי המתאר את מאבקם של אנשי המחתרת הפולנית AK שנלחמה במלחמת העולם השנייה נגד הנאצים.

Director : Wincenty Ronisz

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 58

Language : Polish

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