1. An Intimate History of Occupation (L'Occupation intime)
June 14, 1940. The German Army marches into Paris. France is an occupied country. Through exclusive amateur footage, personal stories, and popular songs from the time, this fi lm recounts life with the enemy during the occupation, as seen by the French... and the Germans! Despite the Nazis and the troubled war times, day-to-day life in occupied France went on. People learnt to live with the rationing, the cues, the curfew... Many try to forget the hard times, mainly thanks to the movies in which big stars provide a little dream and lead a privileged life. These stars don't actually collaborate, butadapt and give the impression of normal life during the war. After all, is it necessarily shameful to shake the hand of an enemy?
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
2. O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2 (O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2)
With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.
3. Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero
An exploration of the shocking impact of the Holocaust in Ukraine, where some of the most horrific Nazi massacres of World War II occurred. Featuring contributions from Holocaust survivors.
4. Morkovcha [Korean Carrot Salad] (Морковча)
This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the diaspora is told through conversations with Lidiya Kan’s mother, personal stories, fragmented memories, and her family photo archive. An important character of the film is Morkovcha, the Korean carrot salad, an invention of the Russian Korean diaspora; its essence is symbolic of their mixed identity.
5. The Red Queen (La reina roja)
A look at Palenque's best kept secret: The Red Queen.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
6. 3rd Reich: Evil Deception
In the 1930's an entire nation was brainwashed. It was manipulated by masters of propaganda and the arcane arts. The result was the deaths of millions of people. They created a messiah, a god on Earth. His name was Adolf Hitler and he would become the greatest master of manipulating the hearts and souls of mankind in recorded history. From mass hypnosis to blatant propaganda, from control of the media, to eradicating the opposition, all methods were employed. This is the story of how that apocalyptic agenda was brought to fruition and the methods used to control the minds of men, women and children. This is the story of Nazi Propaganda. "Insightful and well researched." - United Media Network. "The true horror of the Nazis revealed." - Extreme DVD. "The advent of manipulative advertising as we know it today." - Flatlands.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
7. Brigadistas (Brigadistas)
(Brigadistas)
8. The Men Who Brought the Dawn
(The Men Who Brought the Dawn)
9. Ask Dr. Ruth
A documentary portrait chronicling the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became the United States' most famous sex therapist. As her 90th birthday approaches, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and her career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.
It has an average vote of 7.67 on TMDB.
10. Return to Hardwick
Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the history of a disappearing World War II air base.
11. Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre (Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre)
(Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
12. Hitlerstenen: en märklig affär i krigets skugga (Hitlerstenen: en märklig affär i krigets skugga)
"A strange deal in the shadow of war". Nazi Germany made large orders of Swedish granite before and during World War II. The stone would be used to build a new world capital - Germania. A lot of stones were delivered, but after 1943 it became impossible due to the development of the war. But the quarrying in Bohuslän, Blekinge, Skåne and Småland continued anyway and Germany paid punctually until the end of the war. The stone was stored along the Swedish coasts and, after Germany's capitulation and the end of the war, it remained in Sweden.
13. The astonishing destiny of General Luo (L'étonnant destin du général Luo)
Born in Austria in 1903, Jacob Rosenfeld was imprisoned in Dachau. He manages to flee and takes refuge in Shanghai, like 30,000 other people. He exercised his profession there and sought to get involved in 1941 alongside the revolutionaries of the Chinese Communist Party. Rosenfeld becomes a surgeon on the war front between China and Japan. Thanks to his talents as a doctor and an organizer, he soon became close to Mao Tsé-Toung. In 1945, he was appointed general, responsible for the health of the armies and the entire liberated area. He is now called General Luo. Later, he became the Minister of Health of the first communist government. Thanks to his journal found in 2001, this documentary traces its extraordinary destiny.
14. Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer (Heinrich Himmler - Aus dem Leben eines Massenmörders)
Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (Un écrivain dans l'enfer nazi : « Les Bienveillantes » de Jonathan Littell)
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi officer.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
16. National Geographic: The World's Biggest Bomb Revealed
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb .
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Terrorists in Retirement (Des terroristes à la retraite)
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
18. Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party (Congrès de Tours. 1920 : La Naissance des deux gauches)
(Congrès de Tours. 1920 : La Naissance des deux gauches)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
19. Exodus 1947
Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in forming the new State of Israel. The documentary focuses on clandestine and "illegal" American efforts to finance and crew the most infamous of ten American ships that attempted to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine.
20. Westerborkfilm (Westerborkfilm)
(Westerborkfilm)