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The flower of the dragon

the breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam
1972

Double-edged secrets

U.S. naval intelligence operations in the Pacific during World War II
1979

A good place to hide

how one French community saved thousands of lives during World War II
Chronicles the successful efforts of the members of a small French community in the upper Loire Valley to offer shelter and protection to over 3,500 Jews during World War II.

The hiding place

1997
A classic story of God's love and human courage. When the ten Booms were betrayed, they were plunged ovrnight into a hellish maze of brutality and deprivation in the depths of Nazi Germany.

Choosing sides--I remember Vietnam

1998
To protest or remain silent. To face jail or possible death. To desert or enlist. Retrace the divergent roads Americans took during the Vietnam War and where those roads led them in this powerful two-part series.

One Survivor Remembers

a film by Kary Antholis
2005
Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissman Klein takes us on a journey of survival through one of the most devastating events in the history of humankind.

Chief counsel

inside the Ervin Committee--the untold story of Watergate
1976
This is the inside story of the Senate Watergate committee by the man who built its investigating team and directed its activities - and who here records the trials and tribulations leading to the open televised hearings which absorbed and stunned a nation.

The anguish of liberation

testimonies from 1945
1995
A compilation of excerpts from testimonies about the liberation from Nazi concentration camps in 1945. This is an attempt to portray through photographs and to describe through testimonies the complexity of the liberation and its special significance for those Jews who remained alive.

In the shadow of the swastika

1998
He was known as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason.

"The Good old Days"

the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders
1991
"The Good Old Days" reveals startling new evidence of the inhumanity of recent twentieth century history and is published now as yet another irrefutable response to the revisionist historians who claim to doubt the historic truth of the Holocaust.

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