Resistance: They Fought Back

2024

Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 100%
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 145 145

holocaust (shoah) world war ii 1940s

Director

Kirk Wolfinger Photo
Kirk Wolfinger

Top cast

Romy Rosemont Photo
Romy Rosemont as Esther Raab
Michael Berenbaum Photo
Michael Berenbaum as Self - American Jewish University
Mark Zeisler Photo
Mark Zeisler as Emanuel Ringelblum
Maggie Siff Photo
Maggie Siff as Vladka Meed
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781.7 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.42 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by new373 8 / 10

Never forget...they fought back.

Never forget...they fought back.This documentary (1:40) covers the various efforts around Europe where Jewish resistance fighters fought back (in various forms & fashions) against those in power during World War II.Some types of resistance were in the form of books, libraries, plays, etc., read & staged throughout the European ghettos. A few were able to gather together groups of Jews into remote locations (forests) to evade capture. Some others were the average type of resistance fighters known throughout the world: armed warriors. They caused death & destruction to the evil regimes in power that were trying to vanquish their own people from the face of the earth.It is quite eye-opening to know & understand the following figure: only 11% of the Jewish children alive in 1939 were alive at the end of the war in 1945. Several interviewees were actual survivors of the concentration camps & ghettos. They told some very hard-breaking stories about the torture they had to endure.I had previously heard a snippet of some of these stories before in various places, but it was nice to see someone collect them in a documentary. As the tagline of the documentary: "You were taught they went like sheep to the slaughter. You were taught a Nazi lie."Watch this & have your eyes opened to the truth of the matter.
Reviewed by fritziross 10 / 10

My spirit soared

Very moving & inspiring stories from the Holocaust. Most of them I knew & needed to be reminded of, because now that fascists run the ??, we might yet face that here.I didn't know that many Jews risked their lives to smuggle books into the Vilna Ghetto to create its library, & I'm unsure if I ever knew that Jewish prisoners, the Sonderkommando, at Auschwitz exploded & burned down a gas chamber and a crematorium.I knew all about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, but it was great to hear that they held Nazis at bay for longer than nations of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.There was something about hearing about the planning: when asked if she'd help smuggle gunpowder, one heroine at Auschwitz "didn't hesitate". That kind of raw courage blew me away.I had to write a review after I read the unfair bad one: I fight for justice for Palestinians & an end to Israeli war crimes, but that's no reason to dislike Jews in the Holocaust getting their due, unless one's anti-Semitic.I didn't erase it from my DVR after I watched it; I'll need to see it again.
Reviewed by DrD3 1 / 10

Resist it

The style of the documentary and presentation shows that this presentation was well funded. But I have to say that I struggled to find any merit in this presentation as it tended to alter preconceived events from the past; especially those being interviewed, as it seemed either professionally scripted or personally staged. Hence; this documentary turned out to be mainly a rewrite of history that is based on wishful thinking rather than actual historical fact. Also, it is a rather peculiar documentary to be released these days given the present day conflict with those in question. One group gets praised while the other gets vilified for their "resistance".
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