La France de l'épuration, entre vengeance et justice

Apr 2, 2025

★ 8.0

Overview

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Morgane Production

INA

France Télévisions

CNC

Ministère des Armées et des Anciens combattants

Histoire TV

Procirep-Angoa

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Cast

Narrator & Voice over

Éric Caravaca

7 ans en 1944, fille de résistant

Jacqueline Bouvet Neplaz

7 ans en 1944, ancien enfant caché

Boris Cyrulnik

18 ans en 1944, ancien cadre de Renault

Georges Hufschmidt

8 ans en 1944, fils de Claude Jamet

Dominique Jamet

10 ans en 1945, rescapé de la Shoah et avocat

Serge Klarsfeld

19 ans en 1944, ancien maquisard

Jean-François Mauveaux

4 ans en 1944, fille de Jean Zay (Jean Zay, ministre de l'Éducation nationale et des Beaux-Arts dès 1936)

Hélène Mouchard-Zay

13 ans en 1944, fils de résistant

Bernard Neplaz

14 ans en 1944, frère de Marie-Jeanne Noac’h

Joseph Noac’h

16 ans en 1944, lycéenne devenue historienne

Michelle Perrot

20 ans en 1945, rescapée de la Shoah

Jenny Plocki

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6.6

Hamlet

Dec 19, 1990

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

0.0

Näin tehtiin Poissa

Dec 14, 2020

Documentary film about the making of Arttu Haglund's feature film Gone.

5.9

M/S Gustloff

Mar 2, 2008

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.

7.3

Stalingrad

Jan 20, 1993

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.

7.1

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Jan 26, 1970

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

6.1

De Gaulle

Mar 4, 2020

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

0.0

Where Is Heaven?

Oct 24, 2025

Maverick soulmates Ged and Dave are on a mission through the winding lanes and hidden tracks of North Devon, to record the lives and experiences of people living without mains electricity.

0.0

Please Hold

Mar 8, 2025

An experimental documentary engaging with decades of DIY activist media, two death bed/legacy videos, and the wisdom of many living AIDS workers, as we all sit together in one (changing) format, video—VHS, hi-8, digital, Zoom—to address these and other questions: How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go?

7.9

Grand Illusion

Jun 4, 1937

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

7.6

Gandhi

Dec 1, 1982

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

8.2

Night and Fog

Jan 29, 1956

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

8.0

Judgment at Nuremberg

Dec 18, 1961

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

7.8

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Oct 11, 1957

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.