Sentences with phrase «nazi war effort»

In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.

Both factories are so inefficient they make hardly any contribution to the Nazi war effort.

In reality, Jan knew that serving the Nazi war effort would create an opportunity to smuggle Jews and other Polish citizens facing persecution and death out of Warsaw, into the countryside where sympathetic families would hide them until the war ended.

Not exact matches

Yes, 80,000 of the Jews in France were murdered, but 250,000 survived — despite the concerted effort of the Nazi war machine and despite the collaboration of the Vichy administration and its police force.

On a related theme Richard Griffiths, author of Fellow Travellers of the Right, and Patriotism Perverted has turned his attention to those on the far right who at the beginning of the war divided between ones who held to their sympathetic support for Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and those who supported the war effort whilst secretly maintaining their beliefs.

Absent - minded, forthright, manic and keen to help the war effort, he had already put forward a plan to harry the Nazi occupiers of Norway using snowmobiles propelled by giant screws.

However, Michael soon discovers that Mr. Goodwin isn't Jane's father at all; he and Ingersol are actually the Nazi spies Jane was fleeing in the accident, and someone must rescue her before it's too late, both for Jane and the Allied war effort.

Ben Kingsley again demonstrates his versatility, but even his best effort can't bring much sympathy to this redemption story about a Nazi war criminal always moving to avoid capture.

Niki Caro's The Zookeeper's Wife recounts the efforts of Antonina Żabiński and her husband, Jan, who risked their lives during World War II to harbor Jewish refugees in the basement of their zoo during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.

This too is a true story of the Nazi looting of Europe's art treasures during their retreat and the efforts to stop them, but this is a tough, muscular war thriller that pits the stakes against one another: just what price are you willing to pay to protect your artistic legacy?

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 2, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Defiance (R for violence and profanity) Oscar - winner Edward Zwick (for Shakespeare in Love) directs this harrowing tale of survival, set in occupied Poland during World War II, recounting the heroic efforts of three brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who escape into the forest where they join forces with Russian resistance fighters to save over 1,000 fellow Jews from the Nazis.

Powerful illustrations illuminate a little - known aspect of World War II resistance: the heroic Muslim effort to orchestrate the escape of Jews who were aggressively pursued by Nazis during the four - year occupation of Paris.

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath — a hugely charismatic hero — becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.

He was rumored to be the famous «Jack King,» a super-spy during WWII who convinced Nazi sympathizers that he was secretly with the Gestapo, which enabled him to obtain invaluable information about those working against the war effort in Britain.

Cthulhu roleplaying universe developed by Modiphius, which sees the Nazis turn to other - worldly mythical beings to bolster their war effort.

The Louvre will be exhibiting 31 French - owned paintings that were taken by the Nazis during World War II in an effort to reconnect the artworks with their rightful owners.