| Author: | Marcel Ophüls |
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| Extended: | CAPT, LT, WO2, SGT |
Director, Marcel Ophüls. (251min)
Powerful French documentary that punctures the myth that most Frenchmen hated the Germans and worked against the occupation between 1940–44. It makes extensive use of interviews and contemporary footage, and was banned in France until the 1980s.
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