Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.

In the months and years following the end of the World War Two, Allied forces faced a series of bomb...
A special tribute to the immortal B-25 bomber. Features an assemblage of outstanding aerial footage...

A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the N...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

Writer/Director Kaneto Shindô recounts his time spent in the Japanese Navy in WWII. He tells about t...

“This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze ...

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Actress Sara Sommerfeld's grandmother survived the holocaust and now Sara visits the places her gran...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) i...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horror...

This chronicle of the war crimes trial of the Waffen-SS battle group Joachim Peiper in Malmedy was c...

"Letters from Europe" brings to light the words of men and women who gave their lives resisting the ...