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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar

Fri, 20 May 2022

The Elric brothers meet their toughest opponent yet — a lone serial killer with a large scar on his forehead.

After Auschwitz

After Auschwitz

Sat, 25 Mar 2017

For six female Holocaust survivors, liberation from the camps marked the beginning of a lifelong struggle.

The Cut

The Cut

Thu, 16 Oct 2014

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

The Death Train

The Death Train

Sat, 23 Nov 2019

In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed extermination of European Jews had not yet began. After the war, the successive communist governments did all they could to ensure the Iasi pogrom would be forgotten. It was not until November of 2004 that Romania recognized for the first time its direct responsibility in the pogrom. All that remains of this massacre are about a hundred photographs taken as souvenirs by german and romanian soldiers, and a few remaining survivors.

The Kasims

The Kasims

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Eighteen-year-old Shahnura is about to graduate from high school. Her mother spends hours at the dining table while Shahnura is at school, wondering if her mother, sister, and brother are still alive. Living in Germany without a passport or nationality, she listens to the harrowing stories of her mother and two friends who have experienced imprisonment and re-education camps in China. These accounts reveal the suffering, human rights abuses, forced adoptions, and the grim reality of the camps where the predominantly Muslim Turkic Uyghurs are tortured and mistreated.

After the camps, being alive...

After the camps, being alive...

Thu, 22 Apr 2010

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that was interrupted with such violence? How does one reconstruct oneself when all or most of one’s family were butchered? How does one resume studies and earn a living in a society that had cast you out a few years earlier?

Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary

Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary

Wed, 01 Jan 1986

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian.

Voices of Auschwitz

Voices of Auschwitz

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For the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer looks back through the eyes of those who were imprisoned there.

A Certain Liberation

A Certain Liberation

Fri, 21 Nov 2003

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh in 1971 now roams the streets, 30 years later, as a mad person.

Scourging the detonater

Scourging the detonater

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Detective noir Media short film