French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.
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What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the...
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The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
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On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly impossible - they captured a German U-boat. It...
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"The Silent Alps" explores a forgotten massacre that is widely unknown in the modern era, the history of Kea culling in New Zealand
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What happened to painter Beatriz González, who made us laugh with the irony of her works, to get to the point of making a self-portrait that...
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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, better known as Witkacy, enivsages the future horrors of the Polish nation, as embodied by Stalin and Hitler, and the...
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Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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The Neiger family was living a peaceful life in the Jewish community in Krakow when the arrival of World War II changed their lives forever. When...
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DETECTION. Consideration of past, present and future of a small village in Germany. For over a century — wars and states went by — the...
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Tells the story of probably the world's greatest pilot through an extensive and in-depth interview: Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown CBE, DSC, AFC. From his...
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This documentary by filmmaker Brian Patrick explores the history and legacy of one of the most brutal massacres in the history of the American west....
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First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers...