Occupied City

[Available Feb.23 on Amazon Prime Video and various digital and VOD platforms.] Melanie Hyams narrates Steve McQueen's powerful, award-winning, educational, historical, in-depth, gut-wrenching, moving, insightful, 262-minute documentary highlighted by fascinating cinematography and inspired by Bianca Stigter's novel Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945 that pays homage to the Jews from Amsterdam who were murdered by the Nazis during WWII, honors non-Jewish and Jewish resistance fighters who fought to save Jews by transporting them to save havens, reflects on current issues from the pandemic to various protests, and explores, examines, and connects more than 130 sites in modern Amsterdam to the longtime effects of the Nazi occupation on the city.
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