The Conquest of the Air

Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record, despite its elaborate propaga...

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Yael Hersonski

Cast

Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler

A documentary about the famous athlete and movie enthusiast who made Serbia's first sound film, Innocence Unprotected. The Nazi occupation of Belgrade prevented the film from gaining wider acclaim. Director Makavejev intersperses clips of the original film with interviews of surviving cast and crew members, as well as newsreel and arch...

Runtime

1h 15m

Director

Dušan Makavejev

Cast

Dragoljub Aleksić, Bratoljub Gligorijević, Vera Jovanović-Šegović

The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front. They were directed by the veteran propagandist Fritz Hippler, best known for Der Ewige Jude.

Runtime

2h 40m

Director

Fritz Hippler

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease. Animated sequences depict the body metaphorically as a city, defended by the blood cells, which are stimulated by vaccination to amass arms and ammunition, in order to defend the city when it is invaded by germs.

Runtime

12m

Director

Jack King

World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output.

Runtime

6m

Director

Hamilton Luske

Cast

Fred Shields