Shipyard

Jun 10, 2009

1h 13m

★ 9.0

Overview

Shipyard is a landmark documentary covering the creation and life of Bellingham, Washington's wooden boat shipyard, which was built in response to the Axis threat of WWII, it's continued growth through the '50's and '60's, as well as it's innovative role in the development and production of fiberglass boats, including patrol riverboats for the Vietnam war.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Pedal Power Productions

Family History Videos

Shipyard Trailers

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Cast

narrator

Brian Griffin

Self

Art Nordtvedt

Self

Tom Glenn, Jr.

Self

Everett Chapman

Self

James Talbot

Self

Stowe Talbot

Self

Dick Metcalf

deckhand

Roman Stadtler

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7.9

Five Came Back

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0.0

Modus Operandi

Mar 5, 2008

Between 1942 and 1944 some 24,916 Jews were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. The roundups and deportations were organized and carried out by the Nazis with the - not always conscious - cooperation of Belgian authorities. The attitude of the authorities here varied from outright resistance to voluntary or unwitting collaboration.

6.4

Hitler's Hollywood

Feb 23, 2017

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)

0.0

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Jan 25, 2025

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5.2

Cameramen at War

Jan 1, 1943

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8.2

Operation Mincemeat

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Documentary detailing the successful Operation Mincemeat in 1943, which led to the Allies successfully invading Sicily and the war turning in their favour.

8.0

The Phoney War

Aug 27, 2019

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

10.0

Besa: The Promise

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A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that the family had to leave behind.

8.5

The Great Escape

Mar 10, 2017

On March 24, 1944, in the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 British, Canadian, Norwegian and French pilots who were held in Stalag Luft III, a prison camp of the Luftwaffe, escaped. Unique testimony from the last survivors, recreations and today’s digital images sheds new light on the audacious escape.

5.0

Lágrimas rojas

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No overview available.

5.0

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Jan 16, 1942

World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military information.

0.0

Hitler's 9/11

Jan 1, 2013

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved German fighter planes crashing into Manhattan's skyscrapers as living bombs, like the Japanese kamikazes. Hitler understood the huge symbolic power of Manhattan's skyscrapers. He believed suicide bombing would have a devastating psychological impact on the American people and the U.S. war effort.

7.8

Stalingrad - Stimmen aus Ruinen

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Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides, the documentary tells the story of the Battle of Stalingrad through the voices of those who lived it.

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0.0

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0.0

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0.0

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0.0

The Final Days of Adolf Hitler

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No overview available.

5.9

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0.0

Łódź Ghetto

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