Georgi Zhukov

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.

L’un pense en termes de races, l’autre en termes de classes. Ils ont en commun leur antisémitisme et Staline a lu « Mein Kampf ». Tous deux sont animés par une forme de paranoïa. Chacun pratique une politique d’annexion territoriale et rêve d’imposer son idéologie… Ullrich Kasten met en parallèle les trajectoires des deux dictateurs — qui ne se sont jamais rencontrés. Il décrit notamment la terrible partie de poker menteur à laquelle ils se sont livrés au moment du pacte germano-soviétique.

The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.

A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” in the second world war from the days it first crossed the Rhine in March of 1945, through the liberation of a POW-camp in Swabia, until the forces reached the Danube and the Alps at the end of the war and the day French troops marched in the victory parade in Berlin.

The film is dedicated to the 1500th anniversary of Kiev.

La 2ème Guerre Mondiale en couleur retrace six années de conflit à l'échelle de la planète. En 13 heures, de l'Atlantique au Pacifique, il nous plonge au coeur même des batailles. Batailles terrestres, batailles navales, batailles aériennes... Les images, restaurées et en couleurs, impressionnent toujours. Un documentaire exceptionnel, dont aucun scénariste n'aurait pu imaginer l'histoire.