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731: Two Versions of Hell
produced by James T. Hong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 28 mins
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives t...
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produced by James T. Hong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 28 mins
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This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese government and describes the horrors and atrocities that occurred during World War II at the facility. Th...
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese government and describes the horrors and atrocities that occurred during World War II at the facility. The second half, using almost the exact same footage, describes Unit 731 from the Japanese revisionist perspective which is largely supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Japan. Although its cruel experiments on living people produced thousands of casualties, this activity is still denied by a number of Japanese historians and politicians. Generational change has contributed to the escalating history problem between Japan, China, and the two Koreas. Not only were the majority of Asians born and educated after the war; as a result of the education they received in their own countries, their memories and ideas of the war have become more divergent. Usage of the same shots in both parts of the film ironically demonstrates the potential to misuse film images for political purposes. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
James T. Hong
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Great Leap Forward, China, 1958, War and Violence, Medicine, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World H...
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Great Leap Forward, China, 1958, War and Violence, Medicine, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2007. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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China and Vietnam Image Collection
(London, England: Bridgeman Art Library), 16 page(s)
Collection of maps, images and photographs documenting relations between China and Vietnam. Images include colorful paintings of battles during the Qing invasion of Vietnam in the mountains and at sea. Photographs include the Great Wall of China, soldiers, and an open-air marketplace at the base of the mountains s...
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(London, England: Bridgeman Art Library), 16 page(s)
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Collection of maps, images and photographs documenting relations between China and Vietnam. Images include colorful paintings of battles during the Qing invasion of Vietnam in the mountains and at sea. Photographs include the Great Wall of China, soldiers, and an open-air marketplace at the base of the mountains selling cigarettes and perfume.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Photo-essay
Publisher
Bridgeman Art Library
Topic / Theme
China and its Borders, Political boundaries, History, Politics & Policy, Geography, Vietnamese, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright © Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany / © DHM / Bridgeman Images
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Defiant Requiem
directed by Doug Shultz, fl. 2000; produced by Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017 and Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures and Partisan Pictures (United Kingdom: Content Media Corporation, 2012), 1 hour 26 mins
Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordina...
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directed by Doug Shultz, fl. 2000; produced by Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017 and Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures and Partisan Pictures (United Kingdom: Content Media Corporation, 2012), 1 hour 26 mins
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Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling da...
Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling days of forced labor. The Requiem was performed on sixteen occasions for fellow prisoners. The last, most infamous performance occurred on June 23, 1944. With only sixty prisoner-singers remaining following massive deportations, Schächter was ordered by the Nazi camp commander to perform the Requiem before high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and the International Red Cross to support the charade that the prisoners were well treated and flourishing.
Defiant Requiem is about how a rare form of courage, hope, and survival sparked an entirely unique method of fighting Nazi oppression, enabling the prisoners to maintain their dignity and humanity while battling the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. The Latin liturgy of the Requiem which highlights God’s ultimate judgment of the wicked, allowed the prisoners to sing to the Nazis what they dared not say. The Nazi legacy of brutality is well established, but the Terezín legacy is virtually unknown and is told dramatically in Defiant Requiem.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017, Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures, Partisan Pictures, Bebe Neuwirth, 1958-
Author / Creator
Doug Shultz, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Content Media Corporation
Speaker / Narrator
Bebe Neuwirth, 1958-
Person Discussed
Rafael Schächter, 1905-1945
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Nazi regime in Germany, 1933-1945, Nazism, Prisoners of war, Internment camps, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, The Arts, History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2012 Content Media
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Eastern Europe Borders Image Collection
(London, England: Bridgeman Art Library), 21 page(s)
Collection including one map of Eastern Europe with borders marked for Germany, Russia and Poland. Also 20 photographs of border guards some with weapons at various border points in Eastern Europe. There is a picture of a close-up of a border marker with the Nazi insignia. There is a picture of a train station in...
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(London, England: Bridgeman Art Library), 21 page(s)
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Collection including one map of Eastern Europe with borders marked for Germany, Russia and Poland. Also 20 photographs of border guards some with weapons at various border points in Eastern Europe. There is a picture of a close-up of a border marker with the Nazi insignia. There is a picture of a train station in Prostken with military gear including pack, helmets and guns, set out for soldiers.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Photo-essay
Publisher
Bridgeman Art Library
Topic / Theme
Eastern European Borders, Political boundaries, Crossing borders, History, Geography, Politics & Policy, Polish, Germans, Russians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany / © DHM / Bridgeman Images
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Letter from Cornelia E. Prentice to Secretary Daniels re: German POWs, October 1917
in Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004 (RG85). Subject and Policy Files, 1893 - 1957 (A1 9), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (October 1917), Box 2864, General Border Patrol Activities on the Mexican Border - Proposals for Inter-Departmental Cooperation, 54261/246 , 1 page(s)
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in Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004 (RG85). Subject and Policy Files, 1893 - 1957 (A1 9), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (October 1917), Box 2864, General Border Patrol Activities on the Mexican Border - Proposals for Inter-Departmental Cooperation, 54261/246 , 1 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
October 1917, 1917
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Germany and its Borders, Prisoners of war, Diplomacy, Germans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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A Shared Prize (Burma/Thailand)
directed by Joan Salvat; produced by Sylvia Pairo (London, England: SW Pictures, 2008), 32 mins
Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the opposition to the military regime in Burma, and Dr. Cynthia Maung are two strong, brave and socially-committed Burmese women, who have been fighting for years to change things in Burma. They have been awarded the International Catalonia Prize. We look at the personalities and the wo...
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directed by Joan Salvat; produced by Sylvia Pairo (London, England: SW Pictures, 2008), 32 mins
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Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the opposition to the military regime in Burma, and Dr. Cynthia Maung are two strong, brave and socially-committed Burmese women, who have been fighting for years to change things in Burma. They have been awarded the International Catalonia Prize. We look at the personalities and the work of the two women who have devoted their lives trying to gain freedom for their people. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest...
Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the opposition to the military regime in Burma, and Dr. Cynthia Maung are two strong, brave and socially-committed Burmese women, who have been fighting for years to change things in Burma. They have been awarded the International Catalonia Prize. We look at the personalities and the work of the two women who have devoted their lives trying to gain freedom for their people. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for 18 years without having ever been put on trial. She cannot make phone calls, receive visitors or use the Internet. Her only contact with the outside world is the radio. She was not able to attend the International Catalonia Prize awards ceremony in just the same way as she was prevented from going to Stockholm to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. The report also shows the work of Dr. Cynthia Maung, who fled from Burma, as did tens of thousands of people, after the first major popular uprising against the military regime in 1989. Dr. Maung opened a small clinic on the Thai-Burmese border, which has become an important healthcare centre treating the poor and illegal immigrants.
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Sylvia Pairo
Author / Creator
Joan Salvat
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
SW Pictures
Person Discussed
Cynthia Maung, fl. 1989-2008, Aung San Suu Kyi, 1945-
Topic / Theme
Burma and Thailand Border, Prisoners of war, Refugees, Burma-Myanmar Conflict, 1982-2008, Politics & Policy, Current Affairs, Burmese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Scott White Pictures.
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