Theresa Sareo: Alive Again

Historians, biographers, and family descendants of Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest examine the life of one of the South's most controversial figures.

On a bitterly cold morning in January 1946, an Irishman whose voice was as well known as Churchill's, was hanged in England's grim Wandsworth gaol. It was always inconceivable that William Joyce, known to millions as 'Lord Haw-Haw', would escape the death penalty. However, just as with Roger Casement a generation earlier, it took considerable legal ingenuity on the part of the British establishment to ensure that Joyce was hanged. Lord Haw-Haw was the classic traitor. Broadcasting to millions from Nazi Germany, he played a part in sapping the collective spirit of wartime Britain. A grotesque figure, laughed at but secretly feared, his psychological defiance was mythologised by prolonged wartime anxiety. Hitler's Irishman: The Story of Lord Haw-Haw is a documentary by noted British feature film director, Brian Gilbert, for whom the story of William Joyce has been a lifelong obsession. In all Gilbert's work (e.g. 'Wilde', 'Tom and Viv', 'Not Without My Daughter'), he has sought to peel away the layers of complex characters and reveal the dark heart of fanaticism, self-invention and attachment to ideals at all cost. Hitler's Irishman: The story of Lord Haw-Haw is a creative documentary portrait of the compulsive and complex Irishman who recreated himself in a romantic and imagined ideal of Englishness, which he took to a monstrous and fanatical degree that would ultimately lead to his own undoing. Fascist thug? Irish intellectual? British traitor? German hero? Who, in fact, was the real William Joyce?

Not only people from the Allied nations during World War 2 fight against the Axis nations, there were also many who were born in those nations who took up arms against what they believed was wrong. This is the story of a few men who were born in Germany, who for varying reasons joined the British Armed Forces to do what they could to ensure Nazi Germany would not be victorious.

From Evan Ginzburg, associate producer of The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke, 'Theresa Sareo: Alive Again' is the inspirational true story of singer/songwriter Theresa Sareo whose life was forever changed when an impaired driver of an SUV caused the loss of her entire right leg on a Manhattan street corner. This riveting and uplifting documentary chronicles not only her challenging emotional and physical rehabilitation and courageous return to her music career, but also her unexpected path to support trauma survivors and wounded military around the world. Funny, poignant and musically electrifying, first time director, Rye Joseph, captures Theresa's determination to survive, give service to others and keep her musical dreams alive.