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End of Empire
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directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions and Crest Communications Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2001), 1 hour 5 mins
This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. Archival film as well as fascinating interviews with two historians, Professors A. Jayathurai and Brian Farrell, relate the tragedy of this important theater of war. But it is the story of Alexander Colburn a young Scotsman w...
directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions and Crest Communications Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2001), 1 hour 5 mins
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Fading Traces
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directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces a...
directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
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Fragments of Isabella
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directed by Ronan O'Leary, 1959-; produced by Michael Scott and Ronan O'Leary, 1959- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996), 1 hour 13 mins
Finally available from the festival circuit, this riveting film based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by Isabella Leitner, recounts the true story of a young Hungarian Jew and her sisters interned in Auschwitz, their struggle to survive, and their daring escape from a death march to Bergen Belsen. In 1944, Is...
directed by Ronan O'Leary, 1959-; produced by Michael Scott and Ronan O'Leary, 1959- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996), 1 hour 13 mins
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Tiananmen Square, June 4th, 1989
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directed by Jocelyne Benzakin, fl. 1990; produced by Jocelyne Benzakin, fl. 1990, J.B. Pictures, Ltd. (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1991), 13 mins
With startling immediacy, this short film captures the shock and horror the Chinese students experienced when government troops opened fire on them in Tiananmen Square. We hear students rallying for democracy just moments before they were to be gunned down. Skillfully compiled from still photographs smuggled out o...
directed by Jocelyne Benzakin, fl. 1990; produced by Jocelyne Benzakin, fl. 1990, J.B. Pictures, Ltd. (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1991), 13 mins
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In the Name of the Emperor
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directed by Christine Choy, 1953-; produced by Christine Choy, 1953- and Nancy Tong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 53 mins
This is the only American documentary film to examine the Rape of Nanjing, December 13, 1937, when the Japanese Imperial troops marched into this city in China. In just six weeks they murdered 300,000 civilians, and systematically raped and killed thousands of women. Today, the Japanese government continues to den...
directed by Christine Choy, 1953-; produced by Christine Choy, 1953- and Nancy Tong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 53 mins
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Nanjing Nightmares
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directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Murray MacDonald, Gerald B. Sperling and Chi Jinjun (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 49 mins
The Japanese subjugation of the capital of China in 1937-38 has been called "The Rape of Nanjing" or the "Nanjing Atrocity." It is considered one of the most brutal, sadistic acts of war in modern history and caused psychological repercussions to succeeding generations of Chinese. This documentary recounts the his...
directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Murray MacDonald, Gerald B. Sperling and Chi Jinjun (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 49 mins
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Peru: Inca Indians Return Home
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produced by Journeyman Pictures (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 20 mins
The Shining Path, although imbued with Marxist philosophy, wreaked havoc on the lives of the poor Indian descendants of the Incas living in northern Peru. In trying to enlist them in their revolution, they used violence and terror and tried to destroy their culture and way of life. Professor Carlos Ivan Degreogori...
produced by Journeyman Pictures (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 20 mins
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El Salvador: Portraits in A Revolution
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directed by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000; produced by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000 and Betsy Morgan (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1994, originally published 1992), 57 mins
This film documents the grassroots nature of revolutionary democracy and the courage of the ordinary people of El Salvador. In the 1980's, thousands of Salvadorans were forced to flee their homeland to refugee camps in Honduras. After nine years in the camps, they made a decision unprecedented in refugee history....
directed by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000; produced by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000 and Betsy Morgan (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1994, originally published 1992), 57 mins
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Searching for Wallenberg
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directed by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002; produced by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002, Intrepid Documentaries, Inc (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2002), 59 mins
Searching for Wallenberg tells the legendary story of Raoul Wallenberg, who as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944, saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi deportations and certain death. He accomplished this through intimidation, manipulation and sheer courage. Just before the liberation of Budapest by the...
directed by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002; produced by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002, Intrepid Documentaries, Inc (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2002), 59 mins
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Son of the Olive Merchant
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directed by Mathieu Zeitindjioglou, fl. 1998; produced by Zfilms (Beverly Hills, CA: Choices, Inc., 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey with their camera in hand to learn about Mathieu’s Armenian heritage and to learn what modern day Turks think about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915. Sadly, Turkey denies the Genocide for a variety of reasons including that the crimes was actua...
directed by Mathieu Zeitindjioglou, fl. 1998; produced by Zfilms (Beverly Hills, CA: Choices, Inc., 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
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