Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" o...

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The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, impri...

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Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of Fra...

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...

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Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...

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1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

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