Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before

When modern artists embrace her forgotten album “Just Another Diamond Day,” failed U.K. folk singer Vashti Bunyan experiences popularity like never before. This documentary profiles her disappointing career and astonishing resurgence 30 years later. Featuring interviews with Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Boyd and Robert Kirby, this charming movie follows Bunyan as she takes a nostalgic road trip and prepares for the biggest concert of her life.

Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads

 

The armies of the Adolph Hitler's Third Reich invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 at the height of World War II. Mobile commandos, the Einsatzgruppen, followed their advance to Stalingrad with the mission of eliminating all Jewish people on the conquered territories. From June 1941 and the end of 1943, these Nazi groups killed close to two million Jews from the Baltic countries to the Black Sea.

00:00 - EP1 - Mass graves (June-August 1941)

Explore in depth the history of the Nazi mobile death squads, including when, how and why they were created.

43:46 - EP2 - Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

A recollection of the actions of Einsatzgruppen in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states. Due to them, in December 1941 these areas were declared "free of Jews".

01:29:30 - EP3 - The stakes (1942-1943)

As Soviet forces advance, Nazi Germany has the bodies of death-camp victims dug up and burned.

02:08:57 - EP4 - Reckonning (1943-1947)

The series finale recalls the Nuremberg trials. Some faced the ultimate punishment, but many walked free in the 1950s.

Written : Michaël Prazan

Directed : Michaël Prazan

KUIV Production

If there is any doubt about the veracity and deep unimaginable horror that was the Holocaust, watch Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads. It is hard work to watch it. The scale and visciousness of what was done by a state to so many millions is hard to comprehend. There is plenty of evidence to consider and everyone should be aware of it. Genocide is still happening today and there is no excuse for this being so. 

Mariupol: The People's Story (2022)

I watched this last night. It is harrowing, to say the least. The three months the people of Mariupol endured under horrific attack by Russia is a chronicle of human suffering on a terrible scale. Click on the image above to witness hell on earth. 

 Mixed with the testimonies of a dozen survivors, most of them young women, terrible scenes retrace from the inside the siege of Mariupol, a large port in southeastern Ukraine on the Sea of Azov, from the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 to the surrender of the last combatants entrenched in the Azovstal metallurgical complex on May 21. According to the Ukrainian authorities' estimate, some 25,000 civilians died during these three months of indiscriminate shelling and firing by the Russian army, which also destroyed almost the entire city of 430,000 inhabitants, which was then surrounded and almost cut off from the world.

Don't You Forget About Me: A Tribute to John Hughes

 

How did John Hughes capture the growing pains of adolescence so perfectly? Why do his films resonate with those that grew up with them, and those that have just discovered them? Those and many other questions fueled this documentary.

Don't You Forget About Me is a 2009 Canadian documentary film about screenwriter, director, and producer John Hughes. Directed by Matt Austin, the film was named after the 1985 song of the same name by Simple Minds, which in turn was the theme song for Hughes' film The Breakfast Club. The film specifically focused on Hughes' fade from prominence in the early 1990s.

The documentary details the journey of a group of young filmmakers who go in search of the reclusive icon, documenting their search through interviews of the people with whom Hughes had worked and fans of his films. Those interviewed include Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Kelly Le Brock, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Kevin Smith, Roger Ebert, and Jim Kerr of the band Simple Minds. Filming began in 2006.