Since the defeat, the Nazis, who were the masters of the occupied zone, and the French State, which had been ruling the so-called free zone since Vichy, ordered the Jews to take a census. From the spring of 1941, whether they had been French for several generations or naturalized for a few years, foreigners who had taken refuge in France or stateless people who had been driven out of their country, they were put on file, arrested or threatened at any time. Some wrote to the administration, or directly to Marshal Pétain, who seemed to them to be the last resort. These requests are called Suppliques. Men, women, sometimes children, tried as best they could, by all means, to loosen the trap. They address themselves to their executioners, but they do not know it.

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order t...

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

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The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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A film that relates the trial in Bordeaux in January 1953 of some of the participants in the Oradour...

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Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a ...

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