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- Through the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable story of Irena Gut, and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy, as she risked her life to save a generation of Jews from the atrocities of the Holocaust.
- Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
- A once-respected surgeon professor Rafal Wilczur who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past who can help him find the answers he needs.
- Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
- The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
- An astronaut's return after a 30-year disappearance rekindles a lost love and sparks interest from a corporation determined to learn why he hasn't aged.
- Decades after a 1983 terrorist attack, a law student and a cop uncover a conspiracy that's kept Poland as a police state and the Iron Curtain standing.
- Before resettlement, the Kargul and Pawlak struggle to survive in Borderlands until forced relocation to Recovered Territories.
- Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.
- Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
- A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Germans.
- A tangled web of unruly passion lies at the center of this drama, chronicling the stormy affair between the great piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin and the flamboyant feminist writer George Sand.
- Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. A violent love triangle ensues between Arthur, Clara and Emelia, the woman they are taking shelter with.
- Based on a well-known Polish novel with the same title the movie re-tells a true life story of a group of scouts called ''Szare Szeregi'' (Gray Ranks) during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and the liberation of one of its members (imprisoned and tortured by the Germans) through a maverick military action in board daylight right under the enemy's nose known ''Action at the Arsenal'' which was the biggest single feat of the sort undertaken by a youth resistance organisation in all of occupied Europe during WWII.
- 99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?
- Three young women join the resistance during German occupation of Poland.
- Edward Popielski, a detective of extraordinary intellect and physical strength but tormented by epileptic visions that help him in his investigations, is specially appointed by the gods to avenge crimes in the city of Lviv in 1930s Poland.
- Different strata of Polish society oppose communist aggression from Soviet Russia. Love lives on a par with war.
- Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?"
- Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
- A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
- Poland in the 17th century. Two army officers stand up to the ruling aristocracy and end up in prison.
- An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
- The "special commandos" were Jewish prisoners who were forced to operate the crematoria of the annihilation camps such as KZ Birkenau. The oral testimonies of very rare survivors and eyewitnesses, and readings from manuscripts, written and hidden by these Sonderkommandos before they were all killed and cremated, evoke in this movie the horrors of Nazi barbarity.
- Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
- A chronicle of the Holocaust, exploring stories of survival, tragedy, hope, and resilience through one of history's darkest chapters.
- Kacper, a middle-aged high-school history teacher, begins to lose his eyesight. The medical diagnosis leaves no hope. Initially heartbroken, he attempts to hide his health problems from the outside world.
- A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to start a new life in picturesque town in south-east Poland - Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish - Jewish relations and real findings of his work - that roots of some legends are fantasy, not a grain of truth...
- A woman stumbles upon a valuable artifact, the crown that belonged to Casimir the Great.
- The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Pilsudski is freed, but he will not get back his idyll family life that he once knew. Uncertain years are coming, marked by revolutionary events, violence and betrayal. Pilsudski must find a way to man oeuvre on the boggy ground - between the conservative passivity of the Polish Socialist Party and the aggression against the invaders, resulting in retaliation. The year 1914 is coming, and the chance for restoring an independent country, independent Poland, is now or never.
- Based on the diary of one of them, the series follows three young independent sisters who begin publishing weekly "Iskra" in 1918 in post-WWI Poland.
- Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France. Despite being tortured, they refuse to divulge their knowledge of the Enigma to the Germans.
- What makes life meaningful: success or love? This dilemma is faced by Joachim, a fulfilled man approaching the end of his life, and a young mathematical genius, David. This film is a return to the central themes of the director's work. The answers he gives this time are perverse and not obvious.
- Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest's brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a "nice little Jewish girl" for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father's last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his "Goy dancer", his six-years-old son, his father's body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!
- Movie filmed directly after the liberation of the concentration camp at Majdanek, which is considered as the first in the world document the Nazi genocide. Interviews with prisoners from different countries of Europe. Documentary record of 24 and 25 July 1944.
- A tailor in a magical world has to prepare costumes for fantasy beings for an upcoming gala.
- "Everything before us" tells the story about a group of young Polish friends returning home after having worked in Milan, Italy. They decide to start a joint venture.
- A young musician uses his talent as an accordion player to fight for dignity and survival in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- A young man is searching for purpose in a blue-collar town, when he crosses paths with a mysterious gentleman and a young woman. He falls in love with the woman but begins to question the man's intentions.
- Roman Cudakowski, for his friends Cudak, plays in a band at weddings and city parties. During the occupation, the musician did not do well. Entrances to the premises for Germans are an opportunity to earn money. However, they cannot imagine themselves orchestras without a violinist. Then Cudak takes the gifted Szymon Akerman out of the ghetto to concerts, with whom he did not agree before the war. In the new reality, they both need each other: Cudak can earn money by playing with Akerman, while the latter gains a chance to survive. One day, Roman decides to permanently take the violinist and his family from the ghetto in order to hide them, risking his life in his home.
- Unified forces of Polish and Soviet partisans (despite the fact that they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I and II actions.
- A man writes his suicide note, but finds there are more questions than answers.
- A professor is investigating his own childhood home, while a movie director finds inspiration to make a documentary that reveals secrets across three generations.
- The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
- Four confused immigration candidates explore a large empty building. They speak four languages. Why does the telephone not work? Why is the money erased? Where are they going? This political architecture dramedy raises issues of religion, migration, and resistance.
- Poland, 1982, the politically heated days of communist martial law. Two coal miner brothers react differently to the oppressive police state. While Tadek prefers to retreat into neutrality, Janek chooses active engagement in the democratic underground. When Janek asks Tadek to store some anti-government leaflets on the second anniversary of Solidarity's 1980 strikes, he triggers a spiral of events that will have everyone's allegiances and characters severely tested.