The End/Beginning

I discovered a wad of photocopies in my father's attic. Nothing to fuss about except that those photocopies are private documents belonging to Himmler and his daughter Unpublished documents of which I could not even request the origin from my father since he had died. That's how I started an investigation. Looking for original documents from the Himmler family, looking for Nazis, looking for the meaning of Shoa... looking for my father.

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

This video documents interviews with 23 Germans (ages 18 to 84), in the southern German university town of Tuebingen in 2008. Part One, 'That Which Happened,' relates the events of the Holocaust and WW2--and their effects--through the lens of German non-Jews. Part Two, 'Coming to Terms with the Past,' documents how Germany as a country is struggling to come to terms with the Holocaust. This part includes a special focus on Tuebingen's re-emerging Jewish community.

"Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite directions by the same keen sense of honor: Noël Favrelière deserted to free a young Algerian Muslim prisoner who was going to be executed, and René Técourt, to continue the fight for French Algeria alongside the OAS ultras. Two emblematic examples, which describe in a direct, carnal way, what happened there.

On June 10, 1942, the Nazis wiped Lidice off the face of the earth. This documentary points out the changing view of a tragedy which took place sixty years ago.