Class Actions in Europe

Hailed as one of the most moving and influential films of our time, this Oscar nominated documentary by director Marcel Ophüls has continued to garner international acclaim since its release in 1969.
An epic account of the occupation of small French industrial city Clermont-Ferrand by the Germans in World War 2, Ophüls combines interviews along with archive footage to explore the reality of occupation. Speaking to Resistance fighters, collaborators, spies, farmers, government officials, writers, artists and veterans, it is perhaps the most gripping and inspiring portrait of how ordinary people actually conducted themselves under extraordinary circumstances.

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society.

"A valuable study . . . a must-read for everybody interested in the topic of German Fallschirmjäger in the Second World War" (Volker Griesser, author of The Lions of Carentan).