S1.E4 ∙ Italy

Out of Europe chronicles the story told by my cousins, aunts, and uncles as they were forced to suddenly leave their homes in Belgium and make their way through the treacherous hurdles experienced in escaping the tightening Nazi-Vichy vise of 1940. The film shows how each person individually and collectively survived from day to day. Out of Europe is a rarely told story of survival, of my large Jewish family's extraordinary good luck in attaining freedom. The intimate memories of being refugees provide an emotionally alive first -hand telling of a journey by car, truck, train, and on foot through France, Spain, Portugal, and finally, to freedom in the United States.

This documentary is part of a series that describes wars, battles, and revolutions that were turning points in Western history.

Summer 2013, the Netherlands. For the first time, the filmmaker's parents meet up with the family of the American soldier whose grave they have adopted. Another Dutch adopter has been dreaming of such an event for 70 years. Since World War II, all 8301 graves at the military cemetery in the Dutch town of Margraten have been adopted. By 2008 a waiting list is in place. The meeting is the starting point of a modest, touching and at times comical portray of 70 years adoption and connection.

"Nuclear Tango-why a hero fell from grace" is an hour long documentary that investigates and puts together why Dr. A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program was made to take the rap and accept responsibility for having orchestrated the Pakistan -North Korea nuclear relationship.

A feature documentary about one of the greatest sportsmen ever. Darko Kralj (the King) is the only sportsman in the history of sports who has beaten a world record in his category five times in a row at one world championship! A croatian paralympic, seriously wounded in 1991 during the war in Croatia, Darko Kralj has almost died. Doctors didn't expect him to survive. Today, he lives with a wife and three sons, the eldest one being the one Darko is the most attached to. Some kind of similar destiny brought them together, the kid has lost his biological father in the war. Tereza, his wife, has her own life story. Going towards the end of this unusual life story, we shall more and more understand where his strength and incredible love for life comes from.