Charlie Chaplin’s first “talkie”. A satiric attack on Hitler and Nazism, telling the story of an amnesiac Jewish barber (based on Chaplin’s “tramp”), who happens to resemble Hitler. Chaplin plays both the barber, and the role of “Adenoid Hynkel”, the tyrannical dictator of “Tomania”. The Jewish barber, who lost his memory while serving in the First World War, was subsequently hospitalized for twenty years. When he tries to return to his barbershop upon his release, he finds that it is inside the Jewish ghetto, controlled by SA thugs. Although The Great Dictator was made when the world did not yet know the whole...
Documentary film about Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's close associates. The film deals with Hess's path in the Nazi party, his relations with Hitler, his jobs until the outbreak of the war, his personality, his mysterious flight to England, his arrest, his trial in Nuremberg, his family and his admiration by the neo Nazi movement. Includes archival films and testimonies.
The film within a film in Ararat examines the often-overlooked Armenian holocaust (1915-17) in the Ottoman Empire. The story revolves around Ani (Arsinee Khanjian), an art history professor who is hired as a consultant on Ararat, an epic movie about the genocide being made by an Armenian director (Charles Aznavour). Meanwhile, Ani's 18-year-old son, Raffi, just back from shooting additional footage in Turkey, has a run-in with a customs official (Christopher Plummer) at the Toronto airport.
Part 8 in a 9-volume documentary chronicles the story of the Jews, from the birth of a people in the Middle East's cradle of civilization through the creation of the state of Israel in 1947. Archival film footage and photographs, art and artifacts, journals and personal accounts, and commentary by scholars provide the particulars about a people that have long been persecuted, and yet have given so much to world culture. This volume in the series examines the critical period between 1919 and 1947. Two World Wars, Hitler and the Holocaust, and the turbulent times in Europe forever changed the face of Zionism.
Documentary film based on photographs, archival footage and analysis, about Karl Haushofer, a German geopolitician who was involved in the development of Hitler's expansionist strategies. Born in Munich, Haushofer went to Japan where he began his studies to learn about this strategy for the Germans. During WW2, he fought on the Eastern Front and met Rudolf Hess. After Germany's defeat in WW1, Haushofer founded Thule-Gesellsachft which was inspired by the union of black dragons in Japan. In 1919 Adolf Hitler joined the Bavarian branch of the union. After Hitler rose to power, Haushofer took on the role of...
דרמה המתרחשת במינכן של אחר מלה"ע ה-1 ובמרכזה הרעיון כי הנאציזם לא היה נולד אילו היטלר היה מצליח כאמן. סיפור הסרט עוסק בידידותם של מקס רותמן (ג'ון קיוזאק), סוחר אמנות יהודי שאיבד יד במלחמה, וצייר מבולבל בשם אדולף היטלר (נואה טיילור) הנקרע בין שאיפותיו האומנותיות לבין השפעת הפוליטיקה בחייו. הימים הם ימי התעוררות האמנות (דאדא, אקספרסיוניזם) וגם ימים של התחזקות מגמות פוליטיות קיצוניות. מקס מנסה להשפיע על הצייר המתוסכל להשקיע פחות בפוליטיקה ויותר בלימודי אמנות, למרות כשלונותיו, אך לא מצליח להניאו מנטייתו לעסוק יותר ויותר בפוליטיקה.