Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A feature film. In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin to bring the entire city under their control.The Western powers choose to solve it by airrlift supplies to Berlin . this was called this operation “Vittles” . this operation saved a large encircled population. .

Director : George Seaton

Production Year : 1950

Duration : 120

Language : English

Gladiators Of WWII - RAF Fighter Command

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" tells of the story of RAF Fighter Commandof during WW2 through its crucial role at Dunkirk and at the battle of Britain in the skies over Suthern England in the summer of 1940 when RAF pilots duelled with the German Luftwaffe. Winston Churchill called it Britains finest hour. Heavily outnumbered, Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires confronted Junkers Ju87 Stuka divebombers, Messerschmitt Me109 fighters over the English coast in one of the most crucial battles of WW2. To lose the battle would have meant Nazi invasion of the British Isles. Led...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 48

Language : English

The Man, Who Overestimated Czech Soul. Escapes of Joseph Bryks

A life story of Czech R.A.F. pilot Josef Bryks, who had many times during the 2nd World War in the forces put his life great danger. Later in captiviti he was the sourse of everyone's hope, when he attempted to escape the camp seven times. The comunist back in the Czechoslovakia had rewarded him with jail and slave labor in uranium mines. In an inmates questionnaire he did not state that he'd regret his service for his country, he just said: "I have overestimated the Czech soul." In 1957 was Jan Bryks, aged 41 tortured to death in Jachymovov jail.

Director : Ján Novák

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 53

Language : Czech

Appointment in Berlin

After Neville Chamberlain announces the signing of the Munich Pact with Germany, RAF officer Keith Wilson becomes disgusted with Britain's appeasement and denounces his country's foreign policy. In protest, Keith paints swastikas on the Nelson Column and is court-martialed and discharged from the service for his actions. Soon after his public humiliation, Keith is summoned to Scotland Yard by Colonel Patterson, who enlists him in the counterespionage division of the British Secret Service, instructing him to pose as a British traitor and infiltrate the Nazi propaganda bureau. Patterson directs Keith to attend a...

Director : Alfred E. Green

Production Year : 1943

Duration : 77

Language : English

Cross Of Honour aka Into The White

A feature film. Britain and Germany during the winter of 1940 are in a race to conquer Norway in order to gain control over the iron ore export from the Norwegian harbors. When two enemy fighter planes are shot down, the survivors, both German and British crew members, are forced to seek refuge in order to withstand the harsh weather in the wilderness of the Norwegian mountains. They both end up in an isolated cabin where these enemies of war soon realize that their survival depends on joint action and cooperation. The movie is inspired and loosely based on real-life events that occurred in Norway during the war

Director : Petter Næss

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 99

Language : English, German, Norwegian