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  1. The World at War 1973

    Documentary

    A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.

    The sides of The World at War

    • World War II from its roots to its aftermath
    • Interviews with soldiers, civilians and leaders
    • Archive footage narrated by Laurence Olivier

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole Second World War told in order, front by front.
    • you like hearing soldiers who were there tell what they saw.
    • you like the grave, haunting Carl Davis theme that opens every episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you find 1970s television and black and white archives dated.
    • you can't watch footage of the camps and the dead.
    • you won't commit to twenty six episodes of nearly an hour each.

    About: war · memory · genocide

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  2. A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

    The sides of Apocalypse: The Second World War

    • Archive footage shot by soldiers and civilians
    • Black and white images restored in color
    • The whole war in six parts

    Good for you if

    • you want to see the Second World War through the eyes of those who filmed it.
    • you like the whole war told from start to end in six episodes.
    • you want to see black and white archive footage restored in colour.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face the footage of the Holocaust.
    • you can't watch real combat and real bodies.

    About: war · memory · the Holocaust

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  3. Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.

    The sides of Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

    • Archive footage of World War II restored in colour
    • Stalingrad and the Battle of Britain
    • Key moments of the war told one episode at a time

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing the 1940s in colour instead of grey.
    • you want the big battles of World War II, from Stalingrad to the skies over Britain.
    • you like real footage of the people who lived through it.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of combat and its dead.
    • you'd rather follow a few people closely than the sweep of a whole war.

    About: the second world war · memory · sacrifice

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  4. World War II in Colour 2009

    Documentary

    World War II In Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the Pacific War. It is on syndication in America on the Military Channel. This series is in full color, combining both original and colorized footage.

    The sides of World War II in Colour

    • Archive footage of the Second World War in colour
    • Robert Powell's narration
    • The Western Front, the Eastern Front and the Pacific

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole war told in order, front by front.
    • you like seeing soldiers and battles as real people saw them.
    • you like real footage that feels closer once it's in colour.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand real images of the dead.
    • you find archive footage dated, even colorized.

    About: war · sacrifice · the world order

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  5. Hitler: A Career 1977

    Documentary

    A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

    The sides of Hitler: A Career

    • Archive footage of Hitler's rise
    • Crowds at Nazi rallies
    • The Weimar Republic sliding into dictatorship

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.
    • you're interested in how crowds are swayed by propaganda.
    • you want the story told through footage from the time.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of archive footage is too much for you.
    • you can't sit through so many images of Nazi crowds and war.

    About: propaganda · mass psychology · dictatorship

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  6. D-Day Sacrifice 2014

    Documentary

    Comprised entirely of re-mastered and colorised archive footage from World War II, much of it never before seen, Sacrifice recounts the story of D-Day through the testimonies of those who lived it. These important historical days are seen through the eyes of French civilians and members of the military fighting on both sides. The testimonies of famous individuals like Dwight D. Eisenhower and Erwin Rommel are intertwined with those of anonymous soldiers and citizens, such as film director Samuel Fuller and Eisenhower's chauffeur, Kay Summersby. From the preparations for D-Day all the way through to the liberation of Paris, the accounts of these men and women provide a moving and invaluable retelling of this pivotal time in history.

    The sides of D-Day Sacrifice

    • Colorised archive footage of World War II
    • The Normandy landings
    • Soldiers and French civilians on both sides

    Good for you if

    • you want to follow D-Day from the preparations to the liberation of Paris.
    • you like war seen by soldiers and civilians on both sides.
    • you want real footage and real testimonies, with no actors.

    Bad for you if

    • you find wartime archive footage dated, even in colour.
    • you can't watch real images of dead and wounded soldiers.

    About: sacrifice · liberation · memory

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  7. Shoah 1985

    Documentary

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

    The sides of Shoah

    • Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
    • The sites of the camps filmed decades later
    • No archive footage at all

    Good for you if

    • you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
    • you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
    • you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
    • you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
    • you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.

    About: memory · testimony · genocide

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  8. This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

    The sides of Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

    • The history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
    • Testimony from survivors and former perpetrators
    • Reconstructions of Nazi decisions

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how Auschwitz was built and run.
    • you need to hear survivors and former guards tell it themselves.
    • you want to understand the Second World War beyond the battlefields.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch testimony about mass murder.
    • you need some hope from what you watch.

    About: memory · genocide · responsibility

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  9. The Vietnam War 2017

    Documentary

    An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

    The sides of The Vietnam War

    • Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's history of the war
    • American veterans, protesters and Vietnamese witnesses
    • From French Indochina to the fall of Saigon

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole war, from the French colonial years to 1975.
    • you like hearing soldiers from both sides describe the same battles.
    • you want witnesses rather than actors.

    Bad for you if

    • ten long episodes is too much for you.
    • you can't stand real footage of combat and the dead.

    About: war · lies of power · memory

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  10. Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., offering illuminating perspectives and personal stories of how the catastrophic events of that day changed the course of the nation.

    The sides of Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

    • The September 11 attacks
    • Twenty years of war in Afghanistan
    • Survivors, soldiers and officials remembering

    Good for you if

    • you want the personal stories of people who lived through that day.
    • you like seeing how one day reshaped the following twenty years.
    • you want to understand the choices made in Washington after the attacks.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch footage of the attacks and accounts of torture.
    • you want something light for your evening.

    About: terrorism · grief · security and freedom

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  11. La lista de Schindler 1993

    Película

    Oskar Schindler, un hombre de enorme astucia y talento para las relaciones públicas, organiza un ambicioso plan para ganarse la simpatía de los nazis. Después de la invasión de Polonia por los alemanes, consigue, gracias a sus relaciones con los nazis, la propiedad de una fábrica de Cracovia. Allí emplea a cientos de operarios judíos, cuya explotación le hace prosperar rápidamente. Su gerente, también judío, es el verdadero director en la sombra, pues Schindler no tiene el menor conocimiento industrial.

    Las caras de La lista de Schindler

    • Un empresario que salva a sus trabajadores
    • Blanco y negro, y un abrigo rojo
    • Una lista que significa vida

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan las imágenes potentes en blanco y negro, y una niña con abrigo rojo que no olvidarás.
    • te gusta un villano terriblemente humano.
    • quieres entender una historia real desde dentro.

    Mala para ti si

    • el Holocausto en pantalla es demasiado para ti esta noche.
    • más de tres horas es demasiado para una sola noche.
    • el blanco y negro te echa para atrás.

    Temas: la humanidad · el valor · el mal

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  12. Band of Brothers 2001

    Series

    Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

    The sides of Band of Brothers

    • The paratroopers of Easy Company
    • A night jump over Normandy on D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge in winter

    Good for you if

    • you want a war story built from the real men's interviews and letters.
    • you like soldiers who become brothers, from training in Georgia to the end.
    • you want to follow one company from Normandy to Bastogne and the end of the war.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch men wounded and killed in combat.
    • you need some lightness, and the cold of Bastogne and the camps are too much for you.

    About: brotherhood · courage · war

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  13. The Last Days 1998

    Documentary

    This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.

    The sides of The Last Days

    • Five Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust
    • Survivors returning to their childhood homes
    • Memories of the camps

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear survivors tell their own stories.
    • you want to understand the Holocaust in Hungary through five lives.
    • you're ready to be moved to tears by people going back to where it happened.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear firsthand accounts of the camps.
    • you can't look at archive footage of bodies in the camps.

    About: memory · survival · loss

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  14. The Pacific 2010

    Series

    Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

    The sides of The Pacific

    • Three real Marines in the Pacific war
    • Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
    • Coming home after the fighting

    Good for you if

    • you want the true stories of Leckie, Basilone and Sledge.
    • you want to understand the war against Japan island by island.
    • you like battle scenes on the scale of a film.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch combat deaths filmed up close.
    • the toll of war on real men's minds is too much for you.

    About: war · brotherhood · trauma

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  15. Hearts and Minds 1974

    Documentary

    Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

    The sides of Hearts and Minds

    • Interviews with generals and veterans
    • Vietnamese villagers after the bombing
    • The Vietnam War filmed while it was still going on

    Good for you if

    • you want to see what the Vietnam War did to the people on both sides.
    • you like a film made in the middle of the events it shows.
    • you like seeing official speeches set against what happened on the ground.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of napalm and wounded civilians.
    • you find seventies footage dated.

    About: war · propaganda · guilt

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  16. El pianista 2002

    Película

    Varsovia, 1939. El pianista polaco de origen judío Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) interpreta un tema de Chopin en la radio nacional de Polonia mientras la aviación alemana bombardea la capital. El régimen nazi ha invadido el país, y como hace en otros países invadidos, lleva a cabo la misma política con respecto a los judíos. Así Szpilman y toda su familia -sus padres, su hermano y sus dos hermanas- se ven obligados a dejar su casa y todo lo que les pertenece para trasladarse con miles de personas de origen judío al ghetto de Varsovia. Mientras Wladyslaw trabaja como pianista en un restaurante propiedad de un judío que colabora con los nazis, su hermano Henryk (Ed Stoppard) prefiere luchar contra los nazis. Pero tres años más tarde, los habitantes del ghetto son trasladados en trenes hacia campos de concentración.

    Las caras de El pianista

    • Un pianista escondido en Varsovia
    • Años solo en pisos vacíos
    • Música para un oficial enemigo

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una interpretación callada de pura supervivencia.
    • te gusta una historia real que se queda contigo.
    • te gusta ver a alguien aguantar a pesar de todo.

    Mala para ti si

    • el Holocausto mostrado con detalle es demasiado esta noche.
    • dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.

    Temas: la supervivencia · el arte · la humanidad

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  17. Night and Fog 1956

    Documentary

    Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

    The sides of Night and Fog

    • The grass grown back over Auschwitz ten years after
    • Archive film and photographs from the camps
    • A commentary written by a deported poet

    Good for you if

    • you want the camps documented a decade after, while the sites were still standing.
    • you want the record itself, the archives and the places as they were left.
    • you can face what was done there, stated plainly.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't look at archive images of the dead and the survivors of the camps.
    • you need a film to leave you some hope, and this one closes by asking who is still keeping watch.

    About: the camps · memory · war

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  18. Apocalypse: World War I 2014

    Documentary

    Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.

    The sides of Apocalypse: World War I

    • Archive footage of the Great War in color
    • Fronts from Flanders to Africa and the Ottoman Empire
    • Soldiers and civilians caught in four years of war

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole of World War I told in order, forgotten fronts included.
    • you want to see the trenches as the soldiers lived them.
    • you like real faces from 1914 brought closer by color.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of the wounded and the dead.
    • you can't take the scale of real loss in one evening.

    About: war · memory · loss

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  19. El hundimiento 2004

    Película

    Berlín, abril de 1945. En las calles de Berlín se libra una encarnizada batalla. Hitler y sus fieles se han atrincherado en un búnker. Entre ellos se encuentra Traudl Junge, la secretaria personal del Führer. En el exterior, la situación se recrudece. A pesar de que Berlín ya no puede resistir más, Hitler se niega a abandonar la ciudad y, acompañado de Eva Braun, prepara su despedida.

    Las caras de El hundimiento

    • Los últimos días de Hitler en su búnker de Berlín
    • Su joven secretaria
    • Berlín cayendo ante el ejército soviético

    Buena para ti si

    • quieres ver de cerca los últimos días del Tercer Reich.
    • no puedes apartar la vista de Bruno Ganz como Hitler.
    • te gusta la angustia asfixiante de un búnker mientras la ciudad cae arriba.

    Mala para ti si

    • no lees subtítulos en una película alemana.
    • no soportas ver cómo se acumulan la desesperación y los suicidios en un búnker.

    Temas: la negación · la lealtad ciega · la derrota

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  20. Waltz with Bashir 2008

    Documentary

    A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

    The sides of Waltz with Bashir

    • An Israeli director who can't remember his war
    • Interviews with fellow veterans of Lebanon, 1982
    • Animated memories that end on real footage

    Good for you if

    • you want to know what a war does to the memory of those who fought it.
    • you like a director investigating his own past.
    • you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see a war documentary in animation.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in Hebrew.
    • you can't take a film about guilt and the dead of a war, seen through a soldier's nightmares.

    About: memory · guilt · war

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