Robert O. Paxton

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of Presid ...

Les lois anti-juives de Vichy, 1940-1944 (2013)

Il était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien » (2011)

Philippe Pétain (2010)

Une épuration française (2009)

The Eye of Vichy (1993)

Directed by French filmmaker Claude Chabrol, this documentary examines Nazi and Vichy newsreels and propaganda films from World War II meant to turn the French against the Jews and the Allied Forces and into Nazi sympathizers. This movie is only made of a ...