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Documentary about three courageous people during World War II who strove to preserve the dignity of the human spirit. Trapped between Hitler and Stalin, at a time when events were changing the course of history, three people in Galicia had the courage to risk everything and do what was right, taking it upon themselves to preserve the dignity of the human spirit: a Ukrainian woman endured the theft of her children to save her country, a Jewish man's family chose to save the life of an enemy, a Polish priest risked everything to end the sectarian hatred that tore at his parish. When World War II erupted, Galicia...

Director : Olha Onyshko, Sarah Farhat

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 86

Language : English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

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

Uncle Chatzkel

Uncle Chatzkel explores the story of a man and his reunion with his nephew Rod, a South African born Australian living in Sydney. Rod is both the filmmaker and Chatzkel’s nephew. Lemchen has lived through the Russian Revolution, two World Wars, a Communist regime, and the transition of Lithuania from Soviet Republic to an independent state. During the Holocaust, Nazis and their Lithuanian supporters killed Chatzkel’s parents and children. He and his wife Lena were then sent to separate concentration camps in Germany. Unlike many other Jews who were not Communists, Chatzkel and his wife, both Holocaust survivors,...

Director : Rod Freedman

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 52

Language : English, Lithuanian, Russian, Yiddish

Sun Seekers

Produced and set for release in 1958, this DEFA drama was banned at the urging of the USSR as its content regards uranium and the nuclear arms race – a sensitive topic at the time of the production. Released not before 1972 (when a new regime took power and reformulation of the country foreign policy), the film is regarded since as one of DEFA’s best. Set in a remote uranium-mining village, the story explores the tensions between East-German workers and their Russian authority figures.

Director : Konrad Wolf

Production Year : 1958

Duration : 111

Language : German

Dead Men's Secrets: Stalin's Spy Ring

סרט תעודי העוסק בבחינת תופעת זרימת המידע מגרמניה לברה"מ במהלך מלה"ע ה-2. מידע אשר הגיע מאנשי "התזמורת האדומה", קבוצת אנשים ממספר מדינות שונות בעולם שהמשותף להם היה תמיכה בקומוניזם. המידע שטבעת מרגלים זו סיפקה היה מדויק במיוחד שהיום ישנה נטייה להאמין שהיה מרגל קומוניסטי בדרג הבכיר של הממשל הנאצי. בסרט מוצגים סיפוריהם של אנשי "התזמורת האדומה" ודרכי פעילותם. כולל סרטי ארכיון ותצלומים.

Director : Jonathan Martin

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 46

Language : English

Days that Shook the World: “The Fall of the Romanovs/Fall of the Berlin Wall

BBC and The History Channel Documentary series, dealing with crucial days and events of the 20th century. Each chapter presents archive material and dramatic reenacments. The execution of Tsar Nikolai Romanov the 2nd and his family on 17th July, 1918, which marks the transition of Tsarist Russia to Communist Russia, and the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9th November, 1989 which marks the unification of East and West Germany after a separation of 28 years and the end of the Cold War. When less than one year later, on 3rd October, 1990, Germany was officially reunified with Berlin becoming once again the capital of...

Director : Paul Murton

Production Year : 2003

Language : English

Stalin's Last Purge

This documentary draws upon rarely seen archive footage and information from the newly-opened secret Soviet prison files. It includes interviews with survivors of the period and relatives of some of Stalin's victims who tell their ... stories of life in the Soviet police state. Stalin's last purge not only details the devious plots of Stalin's final years, but it is also the first comprehensive film to examine his actions from the point of view of Russia's Jewish leaders. Many of them, passionate supporters of Stalin during the war years, were later hunted down by his secret police. 15 Jewish writers were put on...

Director : אלן רוזנטל

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 56

Language : English

Clear skies

The action takes place in the USSR in 1950. Flying Alexei Astakhov fought and fell into captivity, then fled. In peacetime, Alexei collided with distrust and suspicion - as a soldier, visited the prisoner, and thus "tarnished moral image of the Soviet pilot." Alex suffers, can not find work in a profession and place in life. His love saves Sasha Lviv, which she kept through the war and all the difficulties of post-war time. After Stalin's death Astakhova are in the Defense Ministry, which returned to the star of Hero of the Soviet Union. Alex returns to the Aviation and experienced aircraft.

Director : Grigori Chukhrai

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 110

Language : Russian

Sonia's Report

סרט תיעודי. סיפורה של הסוכנת היהודיה , שריגלה עבור הסובייטים בשנות ה30 וה40 של המאה העשרים ובן בשנות המלחמה הקרה. הכינוי שלה היה "סוניה", אך שמה האמיתי היה אוּרְסוּלָה קוּצִ'ינְסְקִי.

Director : Chris Watson

Production Year : 1990

Language : English

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