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1) Julia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Born to great wealth, the firecely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting facism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, a friend of Julia's is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
Deutsch
Description
The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine, Sophie Scholl, the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. The last six days of Sophie Scholl's life is dramatized, from arrest to interrogation, trial, and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian who was one of the first to openly resist Adolf Hitler. Features photographs, archival footage, and interviews with family members, friends, students, and associates of Bonhoeffer, including the last interview with Bonhoeffer's close friend and historian, Eberhard Bethge.
6) 13 minutes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Burgerbraukeller, immediately behind the Fuhrer's lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser, a carpenter from Konigsbronn in the Swabia region. A story of a man who nearly changed the world.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While the original North Star was made as a pro-allies, pro-Russian film during the war years, it was re-edited in 1957 and renamed Armored attack to serve as an anti-communist propaganda film. Shortened by 30 minutes and with added narration to emphasize the anti-communist message, it uses the basic plot of the original film of a small village (Ukraine in the original, Eastern Europe in the re-edited version) fighting against German invasion.
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Prague 1942. Following the assassination of Nazi "Reich Protector" Heydrich, Masha Novotny, a professor's daughter, hides the culprit in her parents' apartment. When the Gestapo take 400 people hostage in retaliation, Masha's father is among those arrested. The assassin, surgeon Dr. Svoboda, manages to escape. As they search for him the Gestapo also train their sights on Masha.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the events of July, 1944, when a party led by highly placed Nazi officers nearly killed their leader in the infamous "Wolf's Lair," where he spend 900 days directing the German war effort. The program also uncovers evidence of a top secret plot hatched in London to kill the Führer.
10) Pimpernel Smith
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mid-1939, both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith asks his students to come with him to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they join him in his fight. However, things get complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, whom is secretly...
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Documents a little-known story of the Holocaust, the resistance to Hitler with Nazi Germany, and illuminates crucial issues of conscience and will. Explores the motivating principles and activities of the anti-Nazi resistance inside Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Language
English
Description
As a teenager in Nazi Germany, Jutta is shocked to discover she is Jewish. She joins the German resistance and meets Helmuth Cords, an injured German soldier. The two become sweethearts and ultimately, co-conspirators in the now famous Valkyrie plot to assassinate Hitler. With the failure of the plot comes a series of harrowing events as the couple and their associates are ruthlessly pursued by the Nazis. It would sound like a pitch for a Hollywood...
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