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A feature film. This movie was one of the earliest to examine how a society can be swept off their feet by a fascist regime. Freya Roth is the daughter of a preeminent Jewish science professor and an aristocratic German mother. She has one younger brother and two elder, full-blooded German half-brothers. An outwardly anti-Nazi film released a year before the United States entered World War II, The film was a damning indictment. MGM, the production company, worried that the movie would negatively affect their German audiences, avoided mentioning “Germany” as much as possible, and outright refused to identify...

Director : Frank Borzage

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 100

The Day the Clown Cried

Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo agents, who arrest and send him to a prison camp. Helmut angers his fellow prisoners by refusing to perform for them, wanting to preserve his legend. As times passes, Jews are brought into the camp, with fraternizing between them and the other prisoners strictly prohibited. Eventually, Helmut is forced by the others to perform or be beaten. His act bombs and he leaves the barracks depressed, trying the routine out again alone in the prison yard. He hears laughter...

Director : Jerry Lewis

Language : English

Birth certificate

Threes short- stories (On the road, Letter from the camp, Blood drop) presenting full of tension atmosphere of every day occupation life, From the children's perspective.

Director : Stanislaw Rozewicz

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 99

Language : Polish

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

In semi-documentary fashion, this dramatic feature film recounts the events leading up to and including the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler led by Count von Stauffenberg, the Chief of Staff to Home Army Commander General Friedrich Fromm . Von Stauffenberg had become convinced of the necessity to assassinate Hitler and stage a coup, in order to save Germany’s “honor”. “Operation Walkyrie” failed, leaving Hitler only slightly injured, and resulting in a series of mock trials and brutal executions.

Director : Falk Harnack

Production Year : 1955

Duration : 97

Language : German

The Wall

Adapted by Millard Lampell from his own 1960 Broadway play, which was inspired by John Hersey's 1950 novel, The Wall tells of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. The story is told through the eyes of Warsaw Jew Dolek Benson (Tom Conti) who is a passive observer of the atrocities all around him until he learns the truth about the Nazi's "resettlement" program. Rachel Roberts, cast as Regina Kowalski, a former schoolteacher, made her final appearance in this film. Filmed on location in Sosnowiec, Poland, and first telecast February 16, 1982, The Wall earned a Peabody Award the following year.

Director : Robert Markowitz

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 135

Language : English

Traitors to Hitler

Documentary which incorporates a film shot of trial of the conspirators who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1944.

Director : Rex Bloomstein

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 60

Language : English, German

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Archival footage, excerpts from feature films and personal interviews are the basis of the documentary Marlene Dietrich - Her Own Song. Dietrich rose to fame overnight after starring in The Blue Angel (1929). She later arrived in Hollywood, where she was an outspoken opponent of the Nazi regime and an avid supporter of the Allies. A virtual hermit in later years, Dietrich died in Paris at the age of 91, and was buried in Berlin.

Director : J. David Riva

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 100

Language : English, French, German, Hebrew

Schindler - His story as told by the actual people he saved

Documentary film that describes the figure of Oskar Schindler, a German Righteous Among the Nations. The film was made around a decade before the well known film of Stephen Spielberg, "Schindler's List." Schindler, a businessman who saved more than 1000 Jews from the gas chambers through employing them in his enamel and ammunitions factories, was also a hedonist who chased after money, alcohol and women. Includes interviews with Schindler's survivors, photographs and archival films.

Director : Jon Blair

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 28 50

Language : English

The Plot To Kill Hitler

Is a dramatic re-creation of the 20 July 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.

Director : Lawrence Schiller

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 94

Language : English

Treason or Honor

Documents the moral courage of German rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, using archival footage and interviews focused on six specific rescue experiences.

Director : Sy Rotter

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 27

Language : German

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