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1. Fascism Inc. (Φασισμός Α.Ε.)

Unknown short stories from the past, the present and the future of fascism and its relation to the economic interests of each era. We will travel from Mussolini’s Italy to Greece under the Nazi occupation, the civil war and the dictatorship; and from Hitler’s Germany to the modern European and Greek fascism.

It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.

2. Secrets of the Parthenon

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the ancient Greeks built this icon of western civilization in less than nine years without anything resembling an architectural plan.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

3. Y1: Silence of the Deep (Υ1 – Στη σιωπή του βυθού)

14 September 1943: The legendary submarine Y1 “Katsonis” was sunk north of the island of Skiathos by the German submarine chaser UJ 2101. Through the book of XO Elias Tsoukalas who escaped capture and had to swim for nine hours to reach shore, secret documents, and crew members’ diaries, the documentary unfolds the human stories woven around the submarine. Seventy-five years later, with the support of the Hellenic Navy, we search for the submarine sunk at 253 metres depth and film the wreck for the very first time.

4. Attica in Motion

A four minute audio-visual journey of Athens Greece that has been time/hyper lapsed.

5. A Word for the Greeks

A visit to Athens, Greece and the island of Rhodes.

6. Laboratory Greece

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.</p><p> «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe»</p><p> Paul Craig Roberts

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

7. Messiniako Organic Extra-Virgin Olive Oil from Kalamata, Greece (Food Insider)

In Androusa, in the Kalamata region of Messinia, in the Peloponnese, Greece. This region produces what is considered to be the finest olive oil in the world. It's made from the Koroneiki olive, it is a very small olive, but also very rich and aromatic. Together with a cold extraction and a slow fermentation process, Koroneiki olive oil tastes like no other, a true nectar of the gods. This is the land of ancient myths and heroes, after all. Lets decover it with Dimitra Mathiopoulou, Oliver Oil Taster, University of Peloponnese Olive Oil Tasting Panel, Co-founder of "The Olive Routes" with her husband as the fifht-generation owner of the olive oil mill. They create and market Messiniako Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil , with PDO Kalamata label.</p><p> Documentary from: Food Insider | Regional Eats

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

8. Exarcheia, le chant des oiseaux (Exarcheia, le chant des oiseaux)

(Exarcheia, le chant des oiseaux)

9. Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night (Comme des lions de pierre à l'entrée de la nuit)

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos in reeducation camps created to ‘fight the spread of Communism’. Among those exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, they managed to write poems which describe the struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda speeches constantly piped through the camps’ loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.

10. Intercalated Games (Olympiakoi agones)

Highlights of the Athens 1906 Olympic Games.

11. Lost in the Bewilderness

Lost in the Bewilderness is a feature-length documentary about the filmmaker’s cousin Lucas, kidnapped at age five from his native Greece, and found on the eve of his 16th birthday in the US. This story of international parental abduction, filmed for over twenty years, chronicles Lucas’s journey of growth and self-discovery, and culminates with Lucas becoming a father himself. Lost in the Bewilderness is not only a detective story but also a lyrical meditation on childhood, lost and found, and an exploration of how the themes of ancient Greek myth and tragedy, with the family at their center, are still very much alive in the modern world.

12. Your Neighbour's Son (Your Neighbour's Son)

The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police recruits into torturers and touches on the subject of the power of the institution to compel otherwise moral human beings to torture. The documentary examines the processes and methods of the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.

13. Γάζωρος Σερρών (Γάζωρος Σερρών)

(Γάζωρος Σερρών)

14. What Is a Good Tax? (Qu'est-ce qu'un bon impôt ?)

Too high, misused, unfair... a large part of the French and Europeans criticize taxes. From tax-rascal to tax revolt, the movement of yellow vests in France has returned to the center of attention the question of consent to tax. How to explain a different resistance to taxes from one country to another without tax pressure being an explanation? Is there a "good" tax? Jean Quatremer takes us on a journey to the tax center across Europe, to meet those who pay it, those who decide it, those who study it... or those who allow to avoid it.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

15. OXI, an Act of Resistance

The popular resistance to the current Greek economic crisis explored and expressed through the ethical and political writings of Ancient Greece.

16. The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. In the Fourth and Fifth Centuries BC, the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They laid the foundations of modern science, politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever seen. This series, narrated by Liam Neeson, recounts the rise, glory, demise and legacy of the empire that marked the dawn of Western civilization. The story of this astonishing civilization is told through the lives of heroes of ancient Greece. The latest advances in computer and television technology rebuild the Acropolis, recreate the Battle of Marathon and restore the grandeur of the Academy, where Socrates, Plato and Aristotle forged the foundation of Western thought.

17. Mediterranean Stories (Eidan ta matia mas giortes)

Pictures of the Mediterranean made with bread, oil and wine. In one meal the history, geography, economy, climate, culture and people of the Mediterranean. Close up of threshing floors, threshing floors, mills. Dietary habits, production methods, daily routines together with the natural and built environment make up the cultural body of the most interesting, perhaps, man-made environment in history. A culture that runs as a commonplace even in seemingly different worlds. The Mediterranean emerges in a sea of convergence and meeting without, however, ignoring the dynamics of the different.

18. 1940-41: Greece, the First Victory

This major Documentary reveals the true story of the first victory of the Allies over the Axis powers. It is the Victory at the Battle of Greece! The Documentary portrays the tenacity of the Greek soldiers during WW2, which forced Hitler to disperse his forces in a manner unfavorable to his strategic objectives. It catalyzed the alliance between Britain and the United States and resulted in aborting the Axis plans in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Eastern Front. During the first thirteen months of the war, Hitler's unstoppable war machine had occupied seven European countries and had enslaved a population of 120 million by fighting for less than three months. The surprising seven-month-long Greek resistance to the invading armies of Italy and Germany that followed in 1940-194, gave the Greeks the first Allied victories on land and became a beacon of hope and an inspiration to freedom-loving countries everywhere.

19. Greek Animal Rescue

A gravely ill, abused three-legged stray dog, abandoned in an industrial desert at Aspropyrgos, a town near Athens; a London based charity whose mission is to help the neglected animals of Greece; a group of young volunteers who patrol Aspropyrgos and nurse the strays – these are the characters of the film, in a nightmarish place, a hellhole for many abandoned animals. Does the sick three-legged hound stand any chance of getting adopted, becoming healthy again and running across the fields of Essex? Why are the Greekies, the strays from Greece, so popular when it comes to being adopted abroad? With an unexpected ending, the film tries to discover whether there is any hope for the doomed dogs and for a doomed area outside Athens.

20. Let's Not Live Like Slaves (Ne vivons plus comme des esclaves)

(Ne vivons plus comme des esclaves)

It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.