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results.listIds.director : Helmuth Bauer, Eike Schmitz

results.listIds.year : 1993

results.listIds.duration : 42

results.listIds.lang : German

Gladiators Of WWII - The SAS (Special Air Service)

This programme examines the SAS, from its conception as a shall, deep-penetration raiding force led by Commando Office David Stirling in the deserts of Libya and Egypt in World War II, to its work on the modern day battlefields in the Falklands and Gulf wars. Today the SAS is among the best special services in the world. Its men are the toughest of the tough, and those who have served in it over the 60 years since its inception have lived and fought unswervingly under the motto on their badges: Who Dares Wins.

results.listIds.director : Charles Messenger

results.listIds.year : 2001

results.listIds.duration : 48

results.listIds.lang : English

Mulberry Harbour

This documentary tells the story of Mulberry harbor, an artificial temporary harbor created during WWII to provide port facilities to offload tons of supplies, vehicles and manpower necessary to sustain the invasion of Allied forces to Normandy. Until 9th June 1944, three days after D-Day, the two harbors codenamed Mulberry, A and B, were constructed at Omaha Beach and Gold Beach respectively. Days Later a large storm destroyed the American harbor at Omaha, leaving only the British-Canadian port. Gold Beach was used for 8 months after the invasion and landed about 2.5 million men, half a million vehicles and 4...

results.listIds.director : Andrew Johnston

results.listIds.year : 2001

results.listIds.duration : 50

results.listIds.lang : English

נשים במלחמה - לנהוג עם האויב, פרק 6

הסדרה מגוללת את סיפורן של בחורות יהודיות אשר התגייסו לצבאות השונים במלחמת העולם השנייה, כדי לתרום את חלקן למאמץ המלחמתי למיגור האויב הנאצי.

results.listIds.director : יפעת קידר

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 35

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Metallic Blues

This Israeli drama deals with the subject of Israel-German relations and the collective Holocaust memory in Israel through the story of the journey of two Israeli car dealers, Shmuel (Avi Kushnir) the son of Holocaust survivors and his assistant Siso (Moshe Ivgi). The two acquire from Arabs they chance to meet in the car lot, a luxury car, a Lincoln Continental Limousine. It is clear to them that this is an unusual car that is worth a lot of money in Germany. They travel to Germany in order to sell the car but on their arrival, discover to their disappointment, that the price they can get is much lower than they...

results.listIds.director : דני ורטה

results.listIds.year : 2004

results.listIds.duration : 94

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew

Why We Fight - The Nazi Strike, The Battle Of Russia

Episodes 5 and 6 in the six-part documentary propaganda series Why We Fight, directed by the Hollywood cinema director Frank Capra. Films in the series were produced in cooperation with the US Army war department during 1942-1945 and were distributed among soldiers of the US Army and the American public. The films are based on American newsreels and enemy films that fell into Allied hands. They also include graphic maps and diagrams that were prepared by the war department and animation that was produced by the Walt Disney studio.

results.listIds.director : Frank Capra

results.listIds.year : 1943

results.listIds.duration : 121

results.listIds.lang : English

German Newsreels no. 731 (7/9/44), 732 (14/9/44), 734 (28/9/44).

German Newsreel no. 731 (7 September, 1944): Agriculture: mountain-farmer family working; 70-year-old farmer working his hereditary farm (Erbhof); Reich Labor Service men and women help. Women working to aid war effort: women register for work; members of German Film Ballet work in Berlin defense plant; women do factory work once done only by men; kindergarten at defense plant for working mothers' children. Vice Admiral Heye decorates a lieutenant and one-man-torpedo pilots; Admiral Doenitz adds his congratulations. Western Front: motorized units roll to front; crossing streams on ferries and pontoon...

results.listIds.year : 1944

results.listIds.duration : 34 36

results.listIds.lang : German

German Newsreels no. 727 (10/8/44), 729 (24/8/44), 730 (31/8/44).

Public Service Announcement: A brief vignette set in a restaurant urges the audience to keep quiet about military matters, because the enemy might overhear them talking. 1 min Newsreel no. 727 (10 August, 1944): In the east, Hitler Youth, Labor Service, and workers (including women) from the Baltic area dig defensive trenches. Eastern Front action between the Baltic and the north Carpathians, including replacements rolling to front, artillery and tank counterattack, SS mechanized infantry and others taking village, SS Major General Gille, and knocked-out Soviet tanks. Western Front activity,...

results.listIds.year : 1944

results.listIds.duration : 41 43

results.listIds.lang : German

German Newsreels no. 725 (26/7/44), 726 (3/8/44).

German Newsreel no. 725 (26 July, 1944): July 20 attempt to assassinate Hitler: damage at Hitler's headquarters; Hitler greets Mussolini at train station a few hours after the attempt and confers with him and Himmler. (Graziani, Goering, and Ribbentrop are present.) Albert Speer speaks at a defense-industry conference and awards medals to industrial leaders Kessler, Fischer, Langenohl, and Lueschen (Hitler is shown). Speer visits a new defense plant. A Panther tank is tested side-by-side with American General Lee tank. Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck tested. Eastern Front: retreating to new defensive lines;...

results.listIds.year : 1944

results.listIds.duration : 35 37

results.listIds.lang : German

German Newsreels no. 722 (6/7/44), 723 (12/7/44).

German Newsreel no. 722 (6 July, 1944): General Dietl's funeral, with a eulogy from Hitler, shots of Dietl with troops. Leon Degrelle speaks to Wallonian soldiers and workers in Berlin (synchronous sound, with German translation from narrator). Training at an infantry school, final exercise, Lieutenant Colonel Baerenfaenger speaks to graduates (synchronous sound), infantry song. On the Western Front, coastal batteries fight British-American naval units, Allied wreckage on the coast, knocked-out allied tanks, prisoners, including US paratroopers, Sepp Dietrich at his command post, German tanks, assault...

results.listIds.year : 1944

results.listIds.duration : 32 34

results.listIds.lang : English, German

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