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- Amateur Photographer - The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.
- August Sander - A portrait of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, who though uncelebrated in his own lifetime, pioneered social documentary photography.
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- Blockade - Made entirely from footage discovered in Russian archives, and featuring a meticulously reconstructed soundtrack, this film vividly re-creates the 900 day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
- Bonhoeffer - The dramatic story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young German theologian who was one of the first clear voices of resistance against Adolf Hitler, and who openly challenged his church to stand with the Jews in their time of need.
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- Charlotte - Based on the autobiographical series "Life or Theater?" by Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish painter from Berlin, who sought refuge in Nice during World War II.
- A Child's Century of War - Takes the viewer on a journey through the past century - the bloodiest in history - from the perspective of children, and tells their stories in their voices.
- Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures - Two young men travel the dusty wilderness roads of Northeastern Brazil in the early 1940s, stopping in towns and villages to sell the new miracle drug, aspirin.
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- Deadly Enemies - From early attempts to use bacteria as weapons, to the advent of gene splicing and the creation of superbugs, this is the chilling story of the development of biological weapons.
- Ducktators - A unique look at the use of cartoons during World War II.
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- East of War - Former Wehrmacht soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare on the Eastern Front of World War II.
- Epoca - How is history created? What does or does not enter our memory? By staging a variety of historical fragments, this meditative documentary challenges the idea of "authentic" history.
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- Fighter - Two old friends, Holocaust survivors, journey into their past, to retrace one's daring escape through Nazi-occupied Europe.
- Forging Identity - The remarkable' life of Adolfo Kaminsky, master forger. He helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi persecution, and after the war many 'underground' movements.
- Forgiving Dr. Mengele - The remarkable story of Auschwitz survivor and former 'Mengele twin' Eva Mozes Kor and the transformation that led her to forgive the Nazi perpetrators as an act of self-healing.
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- Hellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima - The profound vision of painters Iri and Toshi Maruki who created the Hiroshima Murals after witnessing the aftermath of that city's destruction.
- The Hermitage Dwellers - This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the "dwellers" intimate relationship with the art.
- Hermitage-Niks - This five-part series is the expanded, in-depth version of THE HERMITAGE DWELLERS.
- Hiding and Seeking - Through this complex, personal story of the effects of the Holocaust on four generations, this film becomes a plea for tolerance for non-Jews.
- The Holocaust Experience - An exploration into how the memory of the Holocaust is kept alive via preserved concentration camp ruins in Poland and hyper-realistic holocaust museums in America.
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- I Am Become Death: They Made the Bomb - Illuminating stories told by scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project.
- The Ister - A journey up the Danube River, this film takes up some of the most challenging paths in Martin Heidegger's thought. With the philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.
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- Japan's Peace Constitution - Explores the origins of Japan's Constitution in the ashes of war, and the significance of its famous peace clause, Article 9, and the debates surrounding it, in the 21st century.
- Joe Polowsky: An American Dreamer - The story of a World War II veteran who dedicated his life to promoting peace.
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- Mother - The story of a Hungarian woman who fled with her six-year old son after the uprising in 1956 while her husband, accused of being a leading "counter-revolutionary," is executed by the new Communist government.
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- Nanjing - Till today the history of the 1937 "Rape of Nanking" is a point of contention between China and Japan. How is it seen in each country, and can a shared memory ever be constructed?
- No More Hiroshima! - Introduces the "hibakusha," anguished survivors of the Hiroshima atomic blast, who fear their experiences will be ignored and others will suffer the horrors of nuclear war.
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- Once Upon A Time...Rome, Open City - An exploration of the making of Rome, Open City, its significance in cinema history and reflections on the great director, Roberto Rossellini, by his family, colleagues and film critics.
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- Remembrance of Things to Come - Reminiscent of Resnais, Ivens, even Kubrick, but in its deployment of still photographs (as in La Jetée), its theme of history and memory, its subject-skipping montage and rapid shuttle of wit and philosophy it's pure Marker.
- Return to Dresden - Juxtaposes the von Weber opera The Marksman with the real life story of a navigator who participated in the Dresden bombing.
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- Senso Daughters - Investigates the Japanese army's mistreatment of New Guinean women and "comfort girls."
- Shadows in the Sun - Japanese veterans of WWII and the descendants of their fallen comrades revisit Papua New Guinea to confront their personal losses and Japan's legacy in the "Forgotten War."
- A Song for Argyris - The moving story of Argyris who survived a Nazi massacre in his village in Greece and who has dedicated his life to ensuring that such wartime atrocities never happen again. (new January, 2008)
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- Tango of Slaves - A Holocaust survivor's journey to Warsaw becomes the springboard for a meditative essay about history, memory, and their preservation in imagery.
- The Two Lives of Eva - The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother, a well-off, Polish Lutheran before WWII, who afterwards married a Jewish Warsaw ghetto survivor.
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- Uncle Chatzkel - Chatzkel Lemchen survived the Russian revolution, two World Wars, the Holocaust and a communist regime, using his skills as a linguist and lexicographer.
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