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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 …
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.
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.
2 Norwegian friends are seperated from home when they join he merchant marine & WW 2 breaks out, leaving loved ones to the Nazi occupiers & the Allied bombers.
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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The madness of war & the deaths it brings to innocent civilians are depicted in the 5 segments of this film set in Russia & Ukraine in 4 different wars.
British children sent to a small town during the Nazi Blitz join with a local boy to help a Black G.I. persecuted by racist MPs,
During WW 2 a group of white women face sexism on a baseball team while a Black woman ballplayer is rejected because of her race.
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.
This limited series explores how 3 First Ladies–Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, & Michelle Obama–struggled to form her own role in the White House.