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Almost exactly 24 years ago I reviewed the documentary Into the Arms of Strangers that told the story of the Kindertransport, a group of projects involving ten thousand Jewish children whom kind-hearted people were able to transport to England from Hitler-dominated Europe just before World War Two erupted. Director James Hawes’s, film straddling two time …
True story of a Black scholar studies Nazism in Germany & Dalits in India because she believes that racism is not the only reason for Trayvon Martin’s death.
An inspiring true story about 3 brave women spies who radioed valuable info to the Allies from France during the Nazi occupation in WW 2.
True story of a brave Catholic social worker who poses as a nurse in order to smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
A French & a German teenager listen in 1934 to a “Professor” speak about light & 10 years later are brought together by her shortwave radio broadcasts.
In L.A. an elderly Holocaust survivor befriends a homeless Goth teenager from Ohio despite the swastika on the back of her jacket.
The personal story of Robert Oppenheimer from his student days to hi days at Los Alamos to the Manhattan Project to the revocation of his security clearance.
Our favorite archaeologist is back for his fifth and last over the top adventure. Thanks to computer de-aging Harrison Ford looks good as the 1944 hero battling Nazis again. Dressed in a Nazi officer’s uniform, Jones is out to recover the Lance of Longinus held at Nuremberg Castle before the Germans can drive away with …
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If there is any truth in that old maxim “Clothes make the man,” then it must go double if those clothes are in the form of a military uniform conferring even a moderate rank upon its wearer. Such is the case in German director/writer Robert Schwentke’s harrowing World War II drama, filmed in crisp black …
The true story of a Jewish teenager who finds shelter with an anti-Semitic Ukrainian family during the Nazi holocaust by keeping her identity secret.