"Director: Marcel Ophüls"

• The Sorrow and the Pity | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £29.25   |  Saving you £-9.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hailed as one of the most moving and influential films of our time this Oscar nominated documentary by director Marcel Ophuls 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 Ophuls 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.

• Hotel Terminus: The Life & Times of Klaus Barbie | DVD | (16/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Klaus Barbie, also known as the butcher of Lyon was implicated in 4,000 deaths and the deportation of 7,000 Jews from occupied France, before he inexplicably vanished. This Oscar winning documentary, from visionary director Marcel Ophuls, traces the 40-year hunt for Barbie, initiated by the same governments that would later hide him and protect his family.