Documentary, History
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.
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After the War, You Have to Tell Everyone About the Dutch Gay Resistance Fighters
Battle of Okinawa in Color
June 1940, the Great Chaos
Decoded
The Bloody Hundredth
Fight to the Finish
The Front Runner
The Mies van der Rohes – A Female Family Saga
The Rape of Europa
Combat America
The Crying Fields
Westward Ho!
The Butcher
La France de l'épuration, entre vengeance et justice
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
Night Will Fall
Obliging Collaborators
Silent Wedding
Lion of the Desert
Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris
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After the War, You Have to Tell Everyone About the Dutch Gay Resistance Fighters
IMDB 1 | Jul , 1991
Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recounts their story.Battle of Okinawa in Color
IMDB 9 | Jun , 2017
By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the fighting is still going strong on a small island in the Pacific. Okinawa was the site of the last battle of the last great war of the 20th century, with a casualty rate in the tens of thousands. Through it all, military cameramen risked their lives to film the conflict, from brutal land combat to fierce kamikaze attacks at sea. See the footage they captured and experience this intense battle the way the soldiers saw it -- in color.June 1940, the Great Chaos
IMDB 8 | Jun , 2010
From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the country folds, and then collapsed in facing the attack of the Nazi Germany. On June 1940, each day is a tragedy. For the first time, thanks to historic revelations, and to numerous never seen before images and documents and reenacted situations of the time, this film recounts the incredible stories of those men and women trapped in the torment of this great chaos.Decoded
IMDB 5.9 | Jul , 2024
In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication codes in a timely and accurate manner. Rong Jinzhen has shown amazing mathematical talent since her childhood, and because she solved the problems assigned by her math teacher, she was noticed by more people, and even walked into the door of code-breaking by mistake.The Bloody Hundredth
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 2024
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.Fight to the Finish
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2020
Marking the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII, the documentary features the first-hand accounts of the Canadians who fought in the worst war in human history. Raw and personal experiences of the terror, pride, horror, excitement, friendship and loss – told through the eyes of the people who fought it.The Front Runner
IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 2018
Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.The Mies van der Rohes – A Female Family Saga
IMDB 6 | Mar , 2023
An epic family saga told by the women around the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.The Rape of Europa
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 2007
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property, culture and heritage were all stolen. The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.Combat America
IMDB 5.4 | Jan , 1943
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.The Crying Fields
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2019
A deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasing First Nations reserves as practice bombing ranges during World War I and World War II. This documentary follows the Enoch Cree Nation's process of developing it's land claim against the Canadian Government following the discovery of active landmines in the heart of the nation's cultural lands and golf course in 2014, almost 70 years later.Westward Ho!
IMDB 2 | May , 1940
Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.The Butcher
IMDB 7.7 | Jan , 1981
A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.La France de l'épuration, entre vengeance et justice
IMDB 8 | Apr , 2025
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
IMDB 9 | Nov , 2023
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.Night Will Fall
IMDB 7.6 | Jun , 2014
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".Obliging Collaborators
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2014
The code to unlocking this feature documentary is 1949, the year the director was born, and also the year of the return of Soviet repressions to Latvia. The film tells a very personal story against the background of less visited historic events – the death of director’s father due to the KGB repressions, which is closely linked to the devious game Soviet Latvia’s KGB played against Swedish-British-American spy agencies.Silent Wedding
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 2008
In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.Lion of the Desert
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1981
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between the governments of Vichy and Nazi Germany.