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Bulletproof Salesman
directed by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker; produced by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2008), 1 hour 10 mins
Bulletproof Salesman is the darkly humorous story of Fidelis Cloer, a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, Fidelis has supplied kings, presidents and dictators with the finest armored vehicles that money can buy. In his world, where security is a commodity, violence (an...
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directed by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker; produced by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2008), 1 hour 10 mins
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Bulletproof Salesman is the darkly humorous story of Fidelis Cloer, a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, Fidelis has supplied kings, presidents and dictators with the finest armored vehicles that money can buy. In his world, where security is a commodity, violence (and better yet, war) presents sales opportunities just as rain sells umbrellas.
Fidelis found the perfect business opportunity when the...
Bulletproof Salesman is the darkly humorous story of Fidelis Cloer, a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, Fidelis has supplied kings, presidents and dictators with the finest armored vehicles that money can buy. In his world, where security is a commodity, violence (and better yet, war) presents sales opportunities just as rain sells umbrellas.
Fidelis found the perfect business opportunity when the US invaded Iraq – selling thousands of his hand-crafted vehicles was possible. But as the war evolved, and armor-defeating Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) proliferated, Fidelis found himself engaged in an arms race with insurgents who upped their explosive ante to defeat his increasingly higher (and more expensive) levels of armor.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Author / Creator
Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
First Run Features
Topic / Theme
Business affairs, Weapons and ordnance, War, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Humanities
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Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of First Run Features.
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The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust
directed by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995; produced by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995 (New York, NY: First Run Features, 1992), 53 mins
The Cross and the Star finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors -- all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that develop...
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directed by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995; produced by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995 (New York, NY: First Run Features, 1992), 53 mins
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The Cross and the Star finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors -- all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that developed into Nazism.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995, Chris Clausen
Author / Creator
John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
First Run Features
Speaker / Narrator
Chris Clausen
Topic / Theme
Internment camps, Antisemitism, War crimes, Jewish people, Judaism, Churches, Christianity, Holocaust, 1939-1945, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, Indians (Asian), Maasai, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Heinrich Himmler: Anatomy of a Mass Murderer
directed by Michael Kloft, 1961-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2008), 52 mins
orn into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that mde the Naze regime so unique in modern history. An early henchman of Hitler’s, Himmler turned a small gang of things into a monstrous pseudo-religious order and widely feared instrument of terro...
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directed by Michael Kloft, 1961-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2008), 52 mins
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orn into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that mde the Naze regime so unique in modern history. An early henchman of Hitler’s, Himmler turned a small gang of things into a monstrous pseudo-religious order and widely feared instrument of terror – the SS.
As a compliant servant to his Führer, Himmler controlled an economic empire in which hundreds of thousands of slave wo...
orn into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that mde the Naze regime so unique in modern history. An early henchman of Hitler’s, Himmler turned a small gang of things into a monstrous pseudo-religious order and widely feared instrument of terror – the SS.
As a compliant servant to his Führer, Himmler controlled an economic empire in which hundreds of thousands of slave workers were exploited and extermination camps murdered millions. Using rare archival materials and interviews, this film biography shows how – and why – Himmler became a “monster of history.”
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
First Run Features
Author / Creator
Michael Kloft, 1961-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
First Run Features
Person Discussed
Heinrich Himmler, 1900-1945
Topic / Theme
War crimes, Internment camps, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Howling with the Angels
directed by Jean Bodon, 1949-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2006), 43 mins
When Hitler's Army marched into Czechoslovakia, a young Czech army captain joined the Resistance. But he had a secret no one knew...until now.
In March 1939, Hitler's army marched into Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jan Bodon, a young captain in the Czech Army - who also happened to be blond-haired, blue-eyed and fluen...
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directed by Jean Bodon, 1949-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2006), 43 mins
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When Hitler's Army marched into Czechoslovakia, a young Czech army captain joined the Resistance. But he had a secret no one knew...until now.
In March 1939, Hitler's army marched into Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jan Bodon, a young captain in the Czech Army - who also happened to be blond-haired, blue-eyed and fluent in German - was 'asked' to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead, and was selected to hel...
When Hitler's Army marched into Czechoslovakia, a young Czech army captain joined the Resistance. But he had a secret no one knew...until now.
In March 1939, Hitler's army marched into Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jan Bodon, a young captain in the Czech Army - who also happened to be blond-haired, blue-eyed and fluent in German - was 'asked' to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead, and was selected to help in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the 'Butcher of Prague.'
In this powerful documentary directed by Jan's son, Jean Bodon uncovers the truth not only about Jan's wartime experiences, but also discovers that his father was secretly a Jew in a country which underwent one of the largest extermination campaigns of the war.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
First Run Features
Author / Creator
Jean Bodon, 1949-
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
First Run Features
Person Discussed
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, 1904-1942, Jan Bodon, Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945
Topic / Theme
Assassinations, Rebellions, War crimes, Internment camps, Jewish people, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, Asians, Sierra Leonean, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Léon Blum: For All Mankind
directed by Jean Bodon, 1949-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2009), 59 mins
This powerful documentary tells the story of Leon Blum - a Jew who served as prime minister of France, and who was a prisoner of the Nazis at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Blum, the first socialist and first Jew to lead France, devoted his life to improving the well-being of workers and was an early champio...
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directed by Jean Bodon, 1949-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2009), 59 mins
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This powerful documentary tells the story of Leon Blum - a Jew who served as prime minister of France, and who was a prisoner of the Nazis at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Blum, the first socialist and first Jew to lead France, devoted his life to improving the well-being of workers and was an early champion of women's rights. In 1936, while the head of the Popular Front, an alliance of left-wing movements, he became prime minister. In 194...
This powerful documentary tells the story of Leon Blum - a Jew who served as prime minister of France, and who was a prisoner of the Nazis at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Blum, the first socialist and first Jew to lead France, devoted his life to improving the well-being of workers and was an early champion of women's rights. In 1936, while the head of the Popular Front, an alliance of left-wing movements, he became prime minister. In 1940, his socialist views and Jewish heritage placed him in jeopardy, and the Vichy government deported him to Buchenwald until the end of the war. After the war, Blum was welcomed home by the French people and was re-elected prime minister in 1946.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
First Run Features
Author / Creator
Jean Bodon, 1949-
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
First Run Features
Person Discussed
Leon Blum, 1872-1950
Topic / Theme
War, Internment camps, Socialism, Heads of state, Jewish people, Politics, Politicians, Social activism and activists, Fascism, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, African Americans, Sierra Leonean, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Motherland Afghanistan
directed by Sedika Mojadidi; produced by Jenny Raskin, Catherine Gund, 1965- and Sedika Mojadidi (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2006), 1 hour 13 mins
Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi and her father, Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi, are Afghans who have made a home in the United States. After the US-led invasion to oust the Taliban, Dr. Mojadidi, a specialist in women's health, decides to return to his war-ravaged homeland to help rebuild and modernize the hospitals and clinics wh...
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directed by Sedika Mojadidi; produced by Jenny Raskin, Catherine Gund, 1965- and Sedika Mojadidi (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2006), 1 hour 13 mins
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Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi and her father, Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi, are Afghans who have made a home in the United States. After the US-led invasion to oust the Taliban, Dr. Mojadidi, a specialist in women's health, decides to return to his war-ravaged homeland to help rebuild and modernize the hospitals and clinics which serve the women of Afghanistan.
Sedika, camera in hand, accompanies her father in order to document this most difficult yet reward...
Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi and her father, Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi, are Afghans who have made a home in the United States. After the US-led invasion to oust the Taliban, Dr. Mojadidi, a specialist in women's health, decides to return to his war-ravaged homeland to help rebuild and modernize the hospitals and clinics which serve the women of Afghanistan.
Sedika, camera in hand, accompanies her father in order to document this most difficult yet rewarding journey. The result is Motherland Afghanistan, an inspiring portrait of dedication and fortitude in some of the most harsh and unforgiving physical, political and cultural terrain on Earth.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jenny Raskin, Catherine Gund, 1965-, Sedika Mojadidi
Author / Creator
Sedika Mojadidi
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
First Run Features
Topic / Theme
Afghan people, Childbirth, Public health, Women's health issues, Humanities, Romani
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Orchestra of Exiles
directed by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996; produced by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996, United Channel Movies and Aronson Film Associates (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2012), 1 hour 25 mins
The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe's premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis. In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony t...
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directed by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996; produced by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996, United Channel Movies and Aronson Film Associates (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2012), 1 hour 25 mins
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The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe's premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis. In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini...
The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe's premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis. In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein, Huberman saved nearly 1000 Jews - and guaranteed the survival of Europe's musical heritage.Featuring commentary by musical greats including Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta and Joshua Bell, Orchestra of Exiles is a timeless tale of a brilliant young man coming of age, and the suspenseful chronicle of how his efforts impacted cultural history.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Josh Aronson, fl. 1996, United Channel Movies, Aronson Film Associates, Tim Eliot, fl. 2012
Author / Creator
Josh Aronson, fl. 1996
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
First Run Features
Speaker / Narrator
Tim Eliot, fl. 2012
Person Discussed
Bronislaw Huberman, Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, Arturo Toscanini, 1867-1957, Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897
Topic / Theme
History, War, Biographies, Orchestras, Musicians, Antisemitism, Nazism, Violin, Symphony orchestra, Jews, Germans
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Our Man in Tehran
directed by Larry Weinstein and Drew Hayden Taylor, 1962- (New York, NY: First Run Features), 1 hour 26 mins
In 1979, the Iranian Revolution erupted. During this upheaval, the US Embassy and its personnel were seized by militants, while six diplomatic personnel managed to escape and find refuge courtesy of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and his staff. Through their words and others' from that time, the events of that cri...
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directed by Larry Weinstein and Drew Hayden Taylor, 1962- (New York, NY: First Run Features), 1 hour 26 mins
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In 1979, the Iranian Revolution erupted. During this upheaval, the US Embassy and its personnel were seized by militants, while six diplomatic personnel managed to escape and find refuge courtesy of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and his staff. Through their words and others' from that time, the events of that crisis are told as Canada found itself in the midst of an international intrigue that defied all conventional understanding. All this culm...
In 1979, the Iranian Revolution erupted. During this upheaval, the US Embassy and its personnel were seized by militants, while six diplomatic personnel managed to escape and find refuge courtesy of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and his staff. Through their words and others' from that time, the events of that crisis are told as Canada found itself in the midst of an international intrigue that defied all conventional understanding. All this culminated in the Canadian government devising a way with CIA assistance to smuggle the fugitives out in an operation that would provide some hope during a dark time in American history.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Larry Weinstein, Drew Hayden Taylor, 1962-
Publisher
First Run Features
Topic / Theme
Fugitives, International relations, Ambassadors, Iranian Embassy Siege, 1980, Iranian Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981, War and Violence
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The Reich Underground
directed by Michael Kloft, 1961-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2004), 52 mins
Late in World War II, while Germany sustained relentless bombing by the Allies, the Nazis undertook a bold gambit to turn the war back in their favor. Building an extensive tunnel system deep underground to house armament factories, Nazi leaders raced against time to produce the deadly new weapons they hoped would...
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directed by Michael Kloft, 1961-; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2004), 52 mins
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Late in World War II, while Germany sustained relentless bombing by the Allies, the Nazis undertook a bold gambit to turn the war back in their favor. Building an extensive tunnel system deep underground to house armament factories, Nazi leaders raced against time to produce the deadly new weapons they hoped would bring Germany final victory.
Long forgotten after the victorious American Army sealed them off from intruders, the sprawling undergr...
Late in World War II, while Germany sustained relentless bombing by the Allies, the Nazis undertook a bold gambit to turn the war back in their favor. Building an extensive tunnel system deep underground to house armament factories, Nazi leaders raced against time to produce the deadly new weapons they hoped would bring Germany final victory.
Long forgotten after the victorious American Army sealed them off from intruders, the sprawling underground labyrinths are reopened for the first time in decades by a team of highly qualified experts. They reconstruct the horrific conditions faced by forced laborers, who died in the tens of thousands building them.
With previously unreleased film material and exclusive interviews, the story of the Underground Reich provides a glimpse into awesome worlds beneath the earth that still exist in Germany, France, Poland and Norway.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
First Run Features
Author / Creator
Michael Kloft, 1961-
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
First Run Features
Person Discussed
Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945
Topic / Theme
War, Underground construction, Tunnels, Internment camps, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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The Search for Mengele
directed by Brian Moser, fl. 1960; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 1985), 1 hour 21 mins
Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death,’ was the most notorious SS doctor at Auschwitz. He sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths and performed appalling experiments on adults and children. After the end of World War II, Mengele was one of the world’s most wanted war criminals – yet for the next fo...
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directed by Brian Moser, fl. 1960; produced by First Run Features (New York, NY: First Run Features, 1985), 1 hour 21 mins
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Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death,’ was the most notorious SS doctor at Auschwitz. He sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths and performed appalling experiments on adults and children. After the end of World War II, Mengele was one of the world’s most wanted war criminals – yet for the next forty years he escaped justice.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
First Run Features, David Frost, 1939-2013
Author / Creator
Brian Moser, fl. 1960
Date Published / Released
1985
Publisher
First Run Features
Speaker / Narrator
David Frost, 1939-2013
Person Discussed
Josef Rudolf Mengele, 1911-1979, Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945
Topic / Theme
Racism, Fugitives, Missing persons, Antisemitism, Jewish people, Internment camps, Torture, Scientific research, War crimes, Eugenics, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, African Americans, Sierra Leonean, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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