SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour (2012)

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

2차 세계대전, 폴란드의 게토 지역에서 카페를 운영하는 제이콥은 계속 가게를 열지 못하고 있다. 어느 날, 제이콥은 야간 통행 금지를 어긴 죄로 독일군에게 불려간다. 제이콥이 독일군의 본부에서 처벌을 기다리는 동안 소련군이 폴란드의 가까운 지역에서 독일군을 물리쳤다는 소식을 전하는 라디오 방송을 듣게 된다. 운좋게 제이콥은 죽음을 면하고 몇 년만에 듣는 뉴스를 가지고 마을로 돌아온다.제이콥은 기쁜 소식을 필요로 하는 사람들과 그 뉴스를 공유해야 겠다고 생각한다. 그 다음 날, 제이콥은 친구 미샤에게 이 소식을 전하게 되는데 이것 때문에 제이콥이 라디오를 가지고 있다는 소문이 퍼진다. 하지만 라디오 소유는 사형이 적용되는 중죄이다. 그렇지만 제이콥은 거짓으로 연합군이 나찌를 물리치고 진격하고 있다는 뉴스를 중계한다. 이런 희망적인 뉴스는 주민들에게 활기와 희망을 가져다준다. 하지만 제이콥은 자신이 전하는 그 소식 때문에 점점 위험에 처하게 되는데...

여행에서 돌아온 "릴리"는 쌍둥이 동생 "로이"가 집을 나갔음을 알게된다. 릴리는 로이에게 계속 메세지를 남기지만 아무런 소식이 없고 릴리의 눈치만 살필뿐 시원스레 이유를 말해주지않는 부모님과 소식이 없는 동생의 걱정으로 그녀는 음식도 거부한채 하루하루 말라가기만 한다. 급기야 정신병동에 입원을 하게된 릴리. 병원의 어떤 처방으로도 아무런 진척을 보이지않던 그녀는 어느날 도착한 로이의 편지로 인해 다시금 힘을 내기 시작한다. 퇴원을 한 후 자신의 삶을 살아가는 릴리.. 여전히 아들을 찾으려는 노력을 하지않는 부모..회신할 수 있는 주소도 없이 주기적으로 날아오는 동생의 편지.. 그녀는 믿고 싶지 않은 진실이 숨어있음을 조금씩 인식하게 된다. 슬픔에 빠져있을 새도 없이 남은 자식의 상처를 걱정하는 부모... 잔잔하게 흐르는 음악과 서로를 배려하는 눈빛들이 따뜻함을 느끼게 하는 영화다.

The Second World War is experienced through the journey of Private Cole, a dramatic study of the contrasting nature between the innocence of childhood and the reality of war, and the emotional struggle that accompanies it.

Funding ceased due to Brexit pullout by backers. In the early hours of the 6th of June 1944 Allied Airborne Forces launched one of most daring assaults in history. 181 men in 6 gliders landed at night to capture two bridges vital to the success of the D-Day landings, one of these would become known as Pegasus Bridge.

아르덴숲 방어선에 배치된 미군 카파 중위의 소대는 독일군과 전투를 벌이며 전선을 유지하고 있는데 대대적인 독일군 기갑부대의 공격이 시작되며 최후의 방어선을 사수하기 위한 격렬한 전투가 벌어진다

1944년 오버로드 작전, 노르망디 상륙작전의 미 공수 사단의 프랑스 낙하 작전을 배경으로, 대원들은 독일의 라디오 타워를 파괴 해야 하는 임무를 맡게 된다. 그들의 목표물인 나치병사들과 싸우지만, 그들과 싸우면 싸울수록 나치병사들이 아닌 보이지 않는 무언가와 싸워야 하는 것임을 깨닫게 된다.

With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts to fight their way into Arnhem and falling back, what became the Oosterbeek Perimeter started to form around Divisional HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel. Beaten but not defeated, the remnants of 1st Airborne Division fought a grim battle with the SS supported by reinforcements and armour rushed to Oosterbeek from all over the West. Veterans and experienced battlefield guides vividly relate their experiences and take the viewer to the scene of the action. The seven days of grim and bloody fighting in the Oosterbeek Perimeter was amongst the hardest fought of all the battles in the West. It was one that the SS veterans of the Eastern Front in the Hohenstaufen Division christened the Hexenkessel or “Witches Cauldron”. All the while the the airborne soldiers were waiting for XXX Corps to arrive from the south, with the enemy pressing ever closer.

The Overlord plan called for the use of airborne troops to secure the flanks of the D Day landing and to form a buffer to keep the German counter-attacks away, thus allowing 3rd Division to advance from Sword Beach to seize Caen. 6th Airborne Division was given this task. It was later to be joined by Lord Lovat's Commando Brigade..These tasks included seizing Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery by 9 Para, whose guns were thought to dominate Sword Beach.Meanwhile, the remainder of the 3 and 5 Parachute Brigades were to secure key objectives. In the event they were widely scattered and facing counter-attack by 21st Panzer Division. Despite this the men of 6th Airborne heroically achieved their mission.

Following on from the story of Hell's Highway, the series reaches the battle to seize the great Bridges over two of Europe's largest water ways; the Maas and the Waal at Nijmegen. Here the 82nd US airborne were, as elsewhere, denied coup de main attacks to seize the bridges by the air commanders. While the Grave Bridge was captured, confusion in US orders meant that the barely defended bridge in Nijmegen was only attacked when the Germans had taken the opportunity to reinforce the garrison. The resulting battle to regain control of the situation is an epic of Anglo-American military history. This programme tells the story of the amazing courage of the American and British soldiers who won this battle against desperate odds.

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

과거의 악몽을 피해 눈 덮인 프랑스 알프스로 온 남자. 어느 날 그는 스키를 타다가 부상을 당한 여자를 집으로 데려오고, 미스테리한 여자의 정체가 밝혀지게 되는데…

This film tells the story of one of the most contentious combats of WW2, the actions of Kamfgruppe Peiper during the Battle of the Bulge.From the outset the King Tigers of December 1944, in poor winter weather, could not cut through the forest roads as the smaller Panzers had done in 1940 but were slowed down by determined resistance by small groups of American GIs, Obersturmbannfuhrer Jochan Peiper, commander of the elite spearhead, the Leibstandarte's 1st Panzer Regiment advancing west on one of the Division's three rolbhans became increasingly frustrated by enemy resistance and poor roads. Eventually anger boiled over into atrocity and the murder of US soldiers and Belgian civilians at Malmendy and elsewhere along the route. Experienced soldiers, historians and film makers analyse events on the very ground where they happened, stripping away legend and obfuscation of all kinds to present the facts for the viewer to make their own decision..

Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this architectural wonder built?

The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and Roosevelt first proposed the operation and how preparations started—finishing with the key events of D-Day and the far-reaching effects of its outcome.

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), changing the shape of medieval Europe and the course of English history. An account of the life of the extraordinary Norman warrior who became king.