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Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean

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Historian Michael Scott journeys through Sicily to find out how 3,000 years of conquest and settlement have shaped the identity of the island we see today.   Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean Part 1 :     Historian Michael Scott begins his journey through Sicily on the slopes of Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano. For the ancient Greeks, the island was a land of gods and monsters – a dangerous and unpredictable world. Michael discovers how 3,000 years ago, the Greeks began to settle on the island’s east coast – planting their olives and vines and building great […]

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Great Escape at Dunkirk

Great Escape at Dunkirk

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As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 300,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Their annihilation seemed certain – a disaster that could have led to Britain’s surrender. But then, in a last-minute rescue dramatized in Christopher Nolan’s recent film, Royal Navy ships and a flotilla of tiny civilian boats evacuated hundreds of thousands of soldiers to safety across the Channel – the legendary “miracle of Dunkirk.”     Now, NOVA follows a team of archaeologists, historians, and divers as they recover the remains of ships, planes, and personal effects lost during the epic

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Auschwitz

Holocaust: Concentration Camps – Auschwitz

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This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The film contains unedited, previously unavailable film footage of this concentration camp shot by the Soviet military forces between January 27 and February 28, 1945 and includes an interview with Alexander Voronsov, the cameraman who shot the footage.   This documentary contains disturbing images !!   The horrifying images include: survivors; camp visit by Soviet investigation commission; criminal experiments; forced laborers; evacuation of ill and weak prisoners with the aid of Russian and Polish volunteers; aerial photos of the IG Farben

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Majdanek

Holocaust: Concentration Camps – Majdanek

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The speed of the Soviet advance gave the Germans no time to destroy or conceal evidence of atrocities committed at the concentration and extermination camp Majdanek. Majdanek was unique in the fact that it was the only camp still operational at the time of its liberation on July 23, 1944.     With footage shot by the Russian forces, which has never been seen before in the west, this stark documentary graphically portrays the terrible tragedy of the two million innocent victims exterminated and the frightful efficiencey of this Nazi death factory. This documentary is the film record of one

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Nakam

Holocaust: The Revenge Plot

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In the dying days of World War II, a secret organisation (Nakam) of Holocaust survivors plans a terrible revenge. Six million Jews are dead but, by 1946, just a handful of Nazis face trial. Most of the guilty will never face justice. For many of Hitler’s victims, this is not enough.     Based on previously unheard recordings and exclusive interviews with those involved – all of whom are over 90 – this documentary tells the story of a remarkable secret group known as The Avengers (Nakam), who decide to take matters into their own hands. Assembled by the warrior-poet

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Holocaust: Concentration Camps – Dachau and Sachsenhausen

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Dachau Concentration Camp, was situated 12 miles northwest of Munich in Bavaria. Built in the early days of the Nazi regime it was one of three camps set up in 1933 to form the basis for a concentration camp system, initially filled with communist and Jewish inmates Dachau’s doors were soon opened to many other “undesirables” that the Nazis wanted to eradicate.   This documentary contains disturbing images !!   Dachau was one of the worst and most notorious death camps and the scene of hundreds of medical experiments carried out on inmates, during 1941 and 1942 over 500 horrendous

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Theresienstadt

Holocaust: Theresienstadt – Deception and Reality

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Between 1941 and 1945, the little fortress town of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia was the transit camp to the death camps in the East for thousands of Czech, German, Austrian and Dutch Jews.   This documentary contains disturbing images !!   The Jews deported there from 1941 onwards were led to believe it was an ‘end camp’ from where they would not be deported further. The thousands of old and prominent Jews from Germany, Austria and Holland deported there from 1942 onwards were promised a comfortable and peaceful life in the ‘Reich home for the aged’ and hoodwinked into signing over

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Holocaust: Concentration Camps – Ravensbruck and Buchenwald

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Buchenwald Concentration Camp: After being established in the Summer of 1937, Buchenwald soon developed into one of the largest concentration camps in Germany, in its eight years of existence,approximately 250,000 inmates from 35 countries were imprisoned here. More than 50,000 of them died during the camps reign of terror. They were systematically culled.The inmates were submitted to the life of slaves, working for the S.S. and the Third Reich.   This documentary contains disturbing images !!   They were deliberately made to suffer by hunger and beatings until death, and were easily replaced by a regular influx of new prisioners

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The Yellow Star

Holocaust: The Yellow Star

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Holocaust: The Yellow Star – With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler’s rise to the power.     Dieter Hildebrandt’s documentary is an interesting and overviewed source with plenty of unseen footage, sound clips and propaganda from WWII and before that, which makes this a must-see film for those who want to learn more about the persecution suffered by the Jews between the decades of 1930 and 1940.   Holocaust: The Yellow Star   Yellow

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