Filmakers - Europe

Europe

26 film(s) found

	Ataturk, Founder of Modern Turkey This is the colorful story of Mustafa Kemal, later known as Ataturk, the charismatic leader of Turkey after the first World War, who secularized the country to bring it into the modern world. more »
	Banking On Hitler This investigative film shows in detail the roles played by the international banking clique, including American banks, in collaborating with the Nazis during World War II. more »
	Battle For Warsaw '44 The Warsaw Uprising was the largest and bloodiest military operation undertaken by any resistance movement in World War II. From August 1 - October 2, 1944 the Nazis were challenged by an underground army of irregular volunteers - the vast majority barely adult. The allies did not come to their aid and 80% of Warsaw was destroyed. With unique testimony from Polish, British, and German participants. more »
	Battle of the Titans How can American workers compete with their counterparts in Third World countries earning 30 cents and hour? Filmed in Indonesia, Venezuela, Egypt and Nigeria, it shows the correlation between economic deprivation and political unrest. more »
	Black and White In Colour Vera Bila, a Gypsy singer, is a cabaret star in Europe but in her native land she is viewed with indifference and suspicion. more »
	Black Triangle The "Black Triangle" where Poland, The Czech Republic, and Germany meet has pollution problems of major proportions more »
	Charles DeGaulle: A Profile In 1940, General DeGaulle escaped to London determined to save France after its surrender to Germany. Archival films together with commentary by journalists and colleagues bring the career of this remarkable leader alive. more »
	Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot On the Planet Nuclear disasters in Chelabynsk were kept secret from the outside world although the local population was sickened from radiation and there is still contamination today. more »
	Children of Chernobyl Through exclusive archival footage and eyewitness accounts the true depth of the tragedy at Chernobyl is revealed. more »
	Emil and Fifi A portrait of Emil Synek, the filmmakers grandfather, who was a revered playwright, journalist and politician in Czechoslovakia during the era of the Second World War and the Communist takeover more »
	Endgame Europe In addition to losing manual jobs, the West is finding that highly skilled jobs are also being lost to lower paid Asian technical professionals. more »
	Fading Traces This film seeks out traces of the once thriving world of the Jewish community in western Ukraine. Before WW II a rich culture with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish threater existed there. The film weaves the words of writers such as Isaak Babel, Martin Buber and others, with the experiences of those still living. more »
	A Family in France This is a portrait of a country family in the Auvergne province who typify how the traditions are slowly fading away in the face of modern life. We see the disintegration of rural areas in industrialized nations. more »
	Freedom to Hate In Russia, the freedom unleashed by Glasnost, Gorbachev and Yeltsin has included the freedom to hate. This film looks at this new form of anti-Semitism and includes secretly shot footage of the nationalist movement "Pamyat" and other hate groups against their traditional Jewish scapegoats. more »
	The Gypsies Of Svinia A devastating account of the discrimination and impoverishment of the Roma in Eastern Slovakia. more »
	Hitler and Stalin: Twin Tyrants This psychological dual biography exposes the chilling parallels -- and the glaring differences -- of these two dictators. Includes exceptional footage from film archives in Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Great Britain and the U.S. more »
	A Jewish Journey This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. The impact is more searing than they anticipated. more »
	Luxembourg: The Failed Takeover The German army’s 1940 invasion of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg marked the beginning of a long ordeal for the nation’s people. For more than four years, Nazis occupied the country, eager to destroy its independence and integrate the Grand-Duchy into the Reich. more »
	Nailed to the Bottom: Subsidies and the Global Economy This film is about the effect of European trade and agricultural policies which unintentionally doom the world's poorest people to endless poverty. more »
	Oh, You Black Bird: The Forgotten Holocaust of the Romanies A first hand account of how the Gypsies suffered during the Holocaust. more »
	Shoah by Bullet Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, was haunted by his grandfather's stories about the extermination carried out by the Einsatzgruppen firing squads in the Ukraine between 1941 and 1944. He relentlessly searches for the truth about the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews. more »
	The Spice Route A richly illustrated account of the 15th Century voyages that opened European trade with Africa and Asia.(in 2 parts) more »
	Sugar: The Rules of the Game This film examines the complex world of international commerce by looking at the major players in the sugar industry -- European and African farmers, major sugar production companies on both continents, experts and officials. The report shows how decisions made at distant international meetings affect the lives of individuals. more »
	The Sweet Century Recounts the stories of Czech women who endured years of imprisonment during the Communist era because of their beliefs. more »
	The Turkish Perspective The film captures the complexities of modern day Turkey. Geographically, it straddles Europe and the Middle East; culturally, it is caught between Western cosmopolitanism and traditional Muslim values. more »
	Village Without Women This raucous yet poignant documentary takes us into the lives of three Serbian brothers who are without wives in a remote mountain village of eight inhabitants, all of them single men. more »