Many television documentaries attempt to reconstruct history. But successful television is rooted in the specific and the personal history in the broad sweep of population and events. Do documentary reconstructions really do justice to history? Or do they merely make us “feel” we know the story when all we have seen is moody sequences, a few “facts” and lots of talking heads? In this session documentaries from Belgium, Hungary and Poland use a variety of techniques to take the viewers back in time on voyages into history.
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This first part evokes the downfall of the French Army in May-June, 1940, through the particular story of a handful of fighters whose lot symbolizes the lot of the whole…