European History: Videos

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In 1944 Spain, a young girl goes to live with her mother and her new stepfather on a rural military outpost. Following her discovery of a labyrinth and the local group of resistance fighters, she is involved in a series of strange encounters.

UW Tacoma Library Media; DVD TAC-1306
After a peasant girl is murdered in 14th century Sweden, a spring appears from where she was killed and her father takes it as a sign from above.

UW Tacoma Library Media ; DVD TAC-173
In a German prisoner-of-war camp, an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in a daring escape attempt.

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Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, The UP Series has began by interviewing 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, director Michael Apted has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives as they turn 49.

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The life and work of German film director Leni Riefenstahi, recounting her career from dancer, actress, and film director in Nazi Germany, as well as her disgrace after Germany's defeat in 1945 and tells of her work and life after the war.

UW Tacoma Library Media; DVD TAC-3336
Three short photography-related documentaries: one focuses on Fidel Castro in the 1960s, another on a 1980s museum photo exhibit of people and their teddy bears, and the third on the filmmaker Agnès Varda revisiting a photograph she'd taken early in her career.