Movies Similar to Memories of Occupation

The Anti-Vax Conspiracy(2021)

Who are the people behind the international anti-Covid-vaccine movement and why are they doing it? This journey inside the astonishing world of the anti-vaxxers finds out.

Concorde's Last Flight(2010)

Highly interesting documentary Concorde's Last Flight tells the story of this eventually ill fated super plane, which could fly from London to New York in three and a half hours and travelled at twice the speed of sound but it was it's final flight and the crash just outside Paris of Air France Flight AF4590 that ultimately sealed its fate. Ten years later the French Courts are still trying to discover just what happened and who, if anyone, was to blame.

Pharaohs Of The Two Lands(2022)

Examines the history of the African kings from Kush who conquered Egypt and ruled over it for 1500 years through an exhibition at the Louvre.

Wilhelm II. - Die letzten Tage des deutschen Kaiserreichs(2007)

Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

Looking for Fidel(2004)

Oliver Stone's second documentary on/interview with Fidel Castro specifically addresses his country's recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents; namely, the execution of three men who hijacked a ferry to the United States.

La Farsa: Una Obsesión Sin Limites(2024)

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France(2024)

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), of a united France that had supposedly stood firm in the face of the ruthless invaders.

Bhutan: Following in the Footsteps of Matthieu Ricard(2024)

Buddhist monk and photographer Matthieu Picard as he returns to the Asian country in the Himalayas where he spent a decade after seven years away, revisiting breathtaking landscapes and experiencing local traditions.

The Real T Rex with Chris Packham(2018)

A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological research.

Shoah(1985)

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

Kamala Harris, an American ambition(2023)

Known as the most liberal U.S. senator and "Border Czar," VP Kamala Harris has a long track record of policy positions; an in-depth look.

The Last Breath of War(2025)

From empire to ashes-Japan's rise, war, and reckoning. A gripping journey through ambition, conflict, and the cost of a nation's destiny.

Il a besoin(1981)

Der vergessene Spion - Verkürzte ein Verrat den Zweiten Weltkrieg?(2025)

Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin: The Road to Yalta(2025)

Between February 4 and 11, 1945, three months before World War II ended in Europe, US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Soviet leader Stalin met in the Ukrainian city of Yalta to discuss how the continent should be politically reorganized after the imminent defeat of Nazi Germany.

The Railways: Engine of Progress(2024)

When the first railroads were built some two hundred years ago, they brought about a revolutionary change for mankind, linking cities and countryside, driving the industrial revolution and irrevocably changing the landscape: a history of the railroad from its beginnings to the present day.

...So Goes the Nation(2006)

A look at the role of the Buckeye State in the 2004 Presidential Election.

Apollo 13: Survival(2024)

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

Fog in February(2024)

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated filmmakers in Quebec and Canada, a leak leaked to the press reveals that the book contains anonymous allegations of pedophile acts committed by the filmmaker. The rumor spread like lightning, suddenly igniting the entirety of Quebec society. By finding today some of the main witnesses propelled overnight into the heart of an unparalleled media tornado, the documentary reconstructs with archive images and other previously unpublished images, the sequence of events which led to a rewriting of the story.

Hitlers Menschenhändler: Juden als Austauschware(2011)

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against arms sales or for cash - with the express approval of Hitler.