During World War II, a group of American soldiers go on a dangerous mission to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. They face the horrors of combat and the challenges of war as they navigate through enemy lines.
Warsaw 44 is a moving film that depicts the harrowing events of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, where Polish resistance fighters bravely fought against the Nazi occupation. The story follows a group of young rebels as they face the atrocities of war, navigate love and betrayal, and make unimaginable sacrifices for their country. With its powerful portrayal of heroism and tragedy, Warsaw 44 captures the courage and resilience of the Polish people during one of the darkest periods in history.
In 1945, a German soldier seeks his daughter while SS troops search for hidden Jewish gold. With the war nearing its end, he teams up with a woman who hates the Nazis to save his daughter and confront the SS soldiers. Action, drama, and war converge in this period piece set during World War II.
During the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, a surgeon seeks revenge after his wife and daughter are killed in a village massacre. He takes matters into his own hands and becomes a one-man army against the fascists.
In Decision Before Dawn, an American officer is recruited to infiltrate a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. His mission is to gather critical intelligence on German military plans and activities. As he interacts with the prisoners and navigates the dangers of being undercover, he must make difficult decisions that could have far-reaching consequences.
During the height of World War II in 1944, a group of Estonian soldiers face the challenges of war as their country becomes the battlefield between the Soviet Red Army and the German Army.
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged and imprisoned, but he escaped less than a year later and found a safe haven in Spain, ruled with an iron hand by General Francisco Franco. What did he do during the many years he spent there?
With the aid of rare archives, this film retraces the bloody history of the SS, some of whose members are still alive and have accepted to speak.
During World War II, a high-ranking Nazi general experiences moral conflict as he carries out orders for the Luftwaffe.
A sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.
During the final years of the World War II, Finnish sergeant Myllykoski and his fellow soldiers are forced to join the notorious Waffen-SS on a mission to find a mythical medieval chalice in the Soviet Union.
During the Battle of Sutjeska, headquarters one of the a partisan detachment, decides to enter deeper into the forest to save a few soldiers and wounded from inevitable death. Commander of the detachment, sent a group of fighters in the reconnaissance. As time goes on, the Germans are getting closer to discovering the detachment and wounded, hunger, exhaustion, forcing people to surrender, but at the time of surrender, and when the Germans discovered detachment, there is a sudden rescue from the group that was in the field reconnaissance.
Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back.
They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. They were fanatics who would not be stopped. They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division. Unleashed in France to halt the Allied invasion, they would sow terror and destruction in their wake. Historical colorized archives and a handful of survivors tell us this story.
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps’ empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais investigates humanity’s capacity for violence, and presents the devastating suggestion that such horrors could occur again. The restoration of the film was undertaken by Argos Films with the support of the CNC in 2016. The original monophonic soundtrack was restored in 2015 at L.E. Diapason from the 35mm optical positive.
Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation.
This programme follows the deployment of the main body of the SAS, the Recces on targets, the raids carried out both by the SAS and the bombing attacks they called in. As the SAS created havoc to the railway system the Germans were hunting them down. Eventually by the use of torture and information by collaborators the Germans tracked them down to their camp near Verrieres. The majority of the SAS were killed or captured. Those captured were later murdered by the Germans.. Their actions tied up large numbers of Germans in guarding the railways and imposed a severe delay on the movements of the 2nd SS Pz Div to Normandy. A few brave men had an impact on the liberation of France out of all proportion to their numbers
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In 1944 prior to D Day the allied planners realised it was vital to isolate the Normandy Battlefield from reinforcements. In particular it was essential to delay or stop the movement of 2 SS Pz Div (Das Reich) from the south of France. The initial plan called for the French Resistance to interdict the French Railway system to stop their movements. Doubts over the effectiveness of the resistance led to the deployment of 1st SAS to do the task. This programme covers both the deployment of a troop of B Sqn into the Poitiers, in what was known as OP BULBASKET, to delay the Das Reich and the movements and actions of the Das Reich as they move through the Dordogne and Vienne Regions culminating in the massacre at Oradour. Part 2 of this programme will cover the SAS actions in delaying the Das Reich.