Ecpad Movies

In late summer 1939, the French learned that Adolf Hitler had attacked Poland. On September 3, France entered the war, twenty years after the carnage...

The war memorials of 1914-1918 have become so familiar that we no longer see them. They've become an invisible museum, blending into the landscape of...

A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” in the second world war...

At the end of WWI, the treaty of Versailles established the conditions for peace in Europe. The aim for the victorious powers was to make Germany pay...

Built on archive footage – much of it previously unseen – this film reveals one of the most unexpected legacies of the First World War --...

A young woman comes to Roissy airport to pick up a military canteen that has been returned to her. It is the effects and pictures of Jean...

A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 1916, the French and German armies relentlessly...

Two rich tourists, a photographer and a painter, meet during a walk in Kabylia. Their wanderings are an opportunity to highlight the many tourist and...

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when...

The international success of the film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen made U-96 one of the most famous submarines in cinematic history. But the true...

On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the...