Camp de Thiaroye (1988)

Pasolini seeks in Africa the peasant and revolutionary authenticity he had sought in the Roman villages. This hope will end in a new disappointment: Africa is a reservoir of irremediable contradictions that will explode in the massacres of yesterday and today. It is an Africa that starts from the outskirts of Rome, but thousands of non-EU citizens flock to the sub-proletariat of the villages.

In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed extermination of European Jews had not yet began. After the war, the successive communist governments did all they could to ensure the Iasi pogrom would be forgotten. It was not until November of 2004 that Romania recognized for the first time its direct responsibility in the pogrom. All that remains of this massacre are about a hundred photographs taken as souvenirs by german and romanian soldiers, and a few remaining survivors.

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who played a decisive role in the outcome of World War II.

En base a los más recientes descubrimientos esta investigación histórica propone un radical cambio de vista sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Emplaza a los científicos del Proyecto Manhattan de vuelta al inicio de la historia y muestra como sus decisiones y su deseo de experimentar con civiles preparó el camino hacia la bomba atómica.

Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a partisan in the Italian resistance named “Laila”, she moved throughout the Apennines with and between fighting units, delivering information, transporting weapons, and taking part in battles. She spent over a year in the Apennines, fighting against the German occupation. At the same time, she had to assert herself against the men of the mountain villages. By the end of the war, Laila had risen among the ranks to become one of the few female commanders in the Italian resistance. This film chronicles the story of a lifelong struggle for emancipation that began with the battle for Italy’s liberation from fascism. Laila and her two comrades, Gina “Sonia” Moncigoli and Pierina “Iva” Bonilauri talk about their time in the Resistenza and what it meant to them and many other women.

In 1942, in the midst of World War II, Nazi Germany occupied France. The Resistance launched numerous escape networks to help people escape from Nazi to the allied Europe. Among them there was the network of escapes that acted in secret between Mendibe-Orbaizeta, a network so secret that it did not even have a name. Spies, clandestine networks, smuggling, solidarity, resistance, hope... All this and more is the documentary 'Sans nom sarea' (Sans Nom Network).

1945. Un avión de carga militar estadounidense pierde el control y se estrella violentamente tras las líneas enemigas en medio de la selva negra alemana. El comandante Johnson envía un escuadrón de sus soldados más valientes en una misión de rescate para recuperar el material de alto secreto que transportaba el avión, dirigido por los sargentos Brewer y Walsh. Pronto descubren soldados nazis ahorcados y otros cadáveres con símbolos mágicos antiguos. De repente, sus brújulas fallan, sus percepciones se tuercen y alejarse del grupo conduce a profundos horrores cuando son atacados por una poderosa fuerza sobrenatural.

Syndrome K is the true story about a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease created by three Roman Catholic doctors during the holocaust to hide Jews in a Vatican-affiliated hospital.

Filmmaker Rosanne Ehrlich unearths hundreds of letters her father wrote her mother while he was away from home, fighting in WWII, and shares them in this documentary that blends narration with, archival footage.

Durante los últimos meses desesperados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una misión aliada para recuperar la isla Ramree frente a la costa de Birmania termina con horror cuando un grupo de soldados asediados se encuentran atrapados en un denso pantano infestado de mortales cocodrilos de agua salada. A medida que los reptiles hambrientos eliminan a los hombres uno por uno, los que quedan recurren a medidas cada vez más desesperadas para sobrevivir al ataque de la carnicería y salir con vida de la isla.

Created in the Victorian era to widen the mouth of the River Tees for shipping, South Gare is a man-made peninsula extending four kilometres into the cold North Sea. Today, the industry it was built for has gone, but the Gare remains as a haven for all sorts of unexpected communities - kite-surfers, photographers, bird-watchers, scuba-divers and the people who simply appreciate its strange, lonely beauty.

The fourth film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa".

Basada en la amistad real entre Ana Frank y Hannah Goslar: desde el Ámsterdam ocupado por los nazis hasta su desgarrador reencuentro en un campo de concentración.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.

As Nazi's arrive in his village, an Albanian peasant is torn between protecting his family or saving two Jewish men he's been hiding for a year.