A Hole In The Head

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, says writer and journalist Markus Pape. Most of those appearing in this documentary filmed in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, France, Germany and Croatia have personal experience of the indifference to the genocide of the Roma. Many of them experienced the Holocaust as children, and their distorted memories have earned them distrust and ridicule. Continuing racism and anti-Roma sentiment is illustrated among other matters by how contemporary society looks after the locations where the murders occurred. However, this documentary film essay focuses mainly on the survivors, who share with viewers their indelible traumas, their "hole in the head".

2017-03-16 | cs

Steps Through the Mist

After breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy fighters. Through his binoculars, the German captain Anders monitors the surviving soldiers who are walking through the fog in an effort to reach their brigade. Anders quietly starts a manhunt on wounded while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion.

1967-05-03 | sh

Interrupted Song

Young couple separated by World War 2, dream of being reunited years later.

1960-05-13 | ka

Don't Believe that I'm No Longer Here

The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later.

1975-12-04 | ka

Treblinka's Last Witness

Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after their escape in a prisoner uprising in 1943. Willenberg would go on to become a hero of the 1944 Warsaw uprising while Taigman would be called as a witness during the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann.

2012-08-15 | en

The Royal Air Force at War 1939-1941

Compiled from the Imperial War Museum Official Collection, this film collects rare and previously unseen film material shot by official cameramen on behalf of the RAF before the formation of the RAF Film Production Unit in September 1941. It tells the story of the RAF in the early years of the Second World War through the "phoney war", the Blitzkfreig and the Battle of Britain, capturing everyday life for those who served as wel as the RAF's frontline aircraft of the period. Other highlights include a fillmed account of a Blenheim raid on Northern France, a Sunderland flying boat sortie over Norway and Winston Churchill inspecting the new American aircraft for the RADF including the B-17, Douglas Boston and P-40.

2005-06-01 | en

Honeymoon in Oak Ridge

A filmmaker embarks on a poignant journey with his parents to the secret city where they unknowingly contributed to the creation of the first atomic bombs.

2024-03-31 | en

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.

2016-09-22 | en

Those who returned from the Camps

Short documentary on people who survived the Nazi concentration camps.

1982-01-01 | nl

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.

1997-04-20 | de

From D-Day to Paris

A short documentary illustrating the Allied landing at Normandy and the course of the war running up to the liberation of Paris. Part of a series that ran from the invasion of Italy to V-E Day

1946-01-01 | en

From Paris to the Rhine

A short documentary made for the British government illustrating the Allied war effort between the liberation of Paris and the arrival at the river Rhine. Part of a series that ran from the invasion of Italy to V-E Day.

1946-01-01 | en

The Damned

A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

1947-09-19 | fr

Album polski

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

1970-05-08 | pl

The Books He Didn't Burn

Explores how Hitler’s personal library provides a look into his mind and how it significantly informed his worldview.

2023-04-18 | de

Code Name: Emerald

In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details of the operation. When one them is captured by the Germans, a double agent must infiltrate occupied Paris, with the help of a high level German officer and the French Resistance.

1985-09-07 | en

How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.

1970-04-02 | pl

Vláčik do stanice víťazstvo

1985-01-01 | sk

Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

In 1945, the second- and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are taken away to work in war factories. The remaining 220 girls of the first year try to make the best of their new-found status as the only teenagers in an almost deserted town, even amid the deprivations of wartime. On the seventh of August, an American bomber changes their lives forever. Broadcast on the 43rd anniversary of Hiroshima in memory of "the girls who lost their lives to the atom bomb." (Source: Anime Encyclopedia)

1988-08-07 | ja

For the Motherland

A Russian flag bearer in World War II questions his will to fight. With a Russian flag as his weapon, he charges into machine guns. As war engulfs him, he must ask himself why he continues to wave his flag.

2005-05-01 | en