This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps.
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
Britain welcomes children liberated from the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
A documentary short film about the genocide at the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia in World War II.
Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of masses of prisoners of war and other deported people back to their home countries, at the end of World War II. A 45min 35mm print also exists (shown at Cinémathèque française in 2023).
Berlino 1945. Ossessionato dalle atrocità cui ha assistito durante la guerra, un chirurgo militare scopre che un suo superiore, responsabile di vari crimini, si è riciclato come rispettabile industriale. Vorrebbe ucciderlo, ma ne è distolto dall'amore per una scampata a un lager nazista che lo convince a denunciarlo.
Documentary about nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen.
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
A rich widower impregnates a poor young woman and dumps her. Her brother, member of a resistance group during the Occupation, tries to mend things up.
Story of Yugoslav prisoners of war in Germany during Second World War. Based on the novel “Farewell in October” by Oto Bihalji-Merin.
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)
Shangrao Concentration Camp is set in the hellish confines of a Guomindang prison, where the brutal officials try to force two female Communist prisoners to reveal their leader's identity and location.
Totò viene rinchiuso in un ospedale psichiatrico per aver tentato di mordere l'amministratore del teatro in cui lavora come comparsa. Durante i dialoghi con lo psicanalista della struttura medica, Totò racconta tutte le disavventure capitategli in vita ed espone la sua teoria secondo cui il mondo si divide in uomini che sudano e uomini che fanno sudare.
Four Spanish Blue Division soldiers captured after the German invasion of Soviet territory face a choice in forced labor camps: renounce their Spanish nationality for better conditions. While two accept, Captain Adrados leads a group resisting, labeling those who comply as traitors, showcasing a struggle for loyalty to Franco's values.
Scampata alla morte, facendosi passare per criminale comune, in un campo di lavoro tedesco in Polonia orfana ebrea diventa kapò, cioè caposquadra-aguzzina delle sue compagne, aizzata alla ferocia dalla logica spietata del lager. L'amore per un prigioniero russo la redime.
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.
Scritto da Abby Mann che adattò un suo teledramma, il film ricostruisce in chiave romanzesca il processo di Norimberga del 1948 contro i criminali di guerra nazisti. Questa verbosa maratona giudiziaria è, forse, il più compatto e armonioso film del produttore-regista Kramer, e un tipico frutto culturale della presidenza di J.F. Kennedy. Saggio di oratoria democratica ad alto livello, è affidato a un all star cast nel quale bisogna segnalare i brevi e intensi interventi di J. Garland e M. Clift. 8 nomination ai premi Oscar e 2 statuette, una per lo sceneggiatore Abby Mann e l'altra a M. Schell.