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A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
May-16 4:55pm SBS-World Movies: The Scarlet and The Black
Based on the humanitarian works of Irish-born Vatican priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who saved thousands of escaped prisoners of war, Jews and Italian Resistance families in occupied Rome during the World War Two, by hiding them in the church. Read more
May-19 11:55am SBS-World Movies: The Man in the Basement
Jewish family man Simon and his wife Helen decide to sell a basement in their Paris building. Read more
May-21 4:10pm SBS-World Movies: The Crossing
December, 1942. Following their parent’s arrest for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the war, young siblings Gerda and Otto are left on their own. Read more
May-22 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
May-23 00:05am SBS-World Movies: Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone’s internationally acclaimed masterpiece ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ is an epic gangster film spanning decades. Read more
May-24 11:30am SBS-Viceland: Israel: Cyberpower
Israel is one of the world’s cyber superpowers. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
