Keyword: world war ii

Sarah and the Squirrel

6.2

1982

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This moving film tells the story of Sarah, a little girl who is orphaned by the war. She hides out in the forest and tries to end the war by sabotaging a railway bridge that is used by munitions trains. Slowly and painfully, throughout a freezing winter, she prises bricks from the supporting columns. In a sudden Spring thaw an ice floe crashes into the weakened column of the bridge and it plunges into the river. Sadly, she realizes that the end of the bridge does not mean the end of the war and she rejoins the creatures of the wild, disappearing into the forest forever.

Stealing the Superfortress

8

2001

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How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.

Victory Vehicles

6.9

1943

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To combat the wartime shortages in gas and tires, a number of fanciful forms of transportation are demonstrated by various versions of Goofy. Finally, we see the ultimate solution: the pogo stick.

The Hitler Youth

7.1

1999

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From its beginnings for Aryan youth, blindly adopting the directorship of Hitler, it grew throughout Nazi Europe until its sudden collapse with Hitlers death.

Colette

7.2

2020

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In Nazi-occupied France, resistance took courage. Seventy-five years later, facing ones ghosts may take even more.

From Hell to Victory

5.3

1979

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In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.

Visas and Virtue

6.7

1997

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Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.

My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes

7.3

2014

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MY ITALIAN SECRET tells a heroic story that was all but lost to history, until now. The film recounts how WWII bicycling idol Gino Bartali, physician Giovanni Borromeo and other Italians worked with Jewish leaders and high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church, risking their lives by defying the Nazis to save thousands of Italy’s Jews.

Pope Vs. Hitler

6.7

2016

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This documentary tells the story about one of the biggest controversies of the twentieth century: the Vatican versus Nazi cruelties. The Pope Pius XII was suspected of Nazi collaboration and was called Hitlers Pope. However, the Vatican had plans for murdering Der Führer.

Adolf Island

6

2019

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Forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls seeks out a Nazi SS camp constructed in secrecy on the British Channel island of Alderney during World War II.

Shanghai Ghetto

7

2002

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SHANGHAI GHETTO recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. Left without options or entrance visas, a beacon of hope materialized for them on the other side of the world, and in the unlikeliest of places, Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, these Jewish refugees journeyed to form a settlement in the exotic city, penniless and unprepared for their new life in the Far East. At the turn of the new millennium, filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amire Mann boldly snuck into China with two survivors and a digital camera to shoot at the site of the original Shanghai Ghetto, unchanged since WWII.

Mynarski Death Plummet

6.9

2014

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A completely handmade historical microepic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipegs doomed Second world war hero, Andrew Mynarsky