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sdcinematografica uploaded a new video
(3 months ago)
Started on July 28th, it is now concluded the second photographic-scientific expedition of the project :"On the Trails of the Glaciers". ...
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Started on July 28th, it is now concluded the second photographic-scientific expedition of the project :"On the Trails of the Glaciers". The project, created and realized by the Italian photographer-alpinist Fabiano Ventura, aims at observing the behaviors of major mountain' glaciers to understand the effect of climate change on these very sensitive indicators; and therefore at contributing to the protection of our environmental heritage.
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sdcinematografica uploaded a new video
(10 months ago)
"Ghosts of the Third Reich" documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past an...
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"Ghosts of the Third Reich" documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors; and to liberate themselves from the guilt, shame, and pain that continue to levy a heavy price seventy years later. The confrontation with the inheritance of the Nazi legacy is powerfully evoked further in the inclusion of moments from The Austrian Encounter, a focal point for dialogue between descendants of Nazi perpetrators and survivors of the Holocaust.
Visit http://www.sdcinematografica.com/Ghosts to know more about this project
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sdcinematografica uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
"Voll besetz", "completely full": it is the morning of 2 December 1943 when Werner Hahn, the pilot of a German reconnaissance p...
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"Voll besetz", "completely full": it is the morning of 2 December 1943 when Werner Hahn, the pilot of a German reconnaissance plane, sends a message to his base saying that the port of Bari is full of ships. That is exactly what the Luftwaffe General Staff in Italy have been waiting to hear.
In the afternoon, 105 German JU 88 bombers take off with the aim of bombing the port of Bari; at 19:30 they take the Allied defences completely by surprise. It is a massacre: by the end of the operation, 17 ships have been destroyed and the port of Bari has been made inoperable for many weeks.
But it is not over: hundreds of sailors and ordinary citizens fill the hospitals. They have not been burnt and they are not wounded, but they are beginning to have rashes, burning eyes and respiratory problems. Many are even dying without explanation.
Why? What is going on? What military secret lay behind those strange deaths?
Eisenhower sent his own medical officer to shed light on the events: in the end he made a terrible discovery, an American merchant ship, the John Harvey, was transporting a top secret cargo, mustard gas, a highly toxic gas banned by the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
The ship had exploded in the port, dispersing its 550 tons of lethal gas in the air.
The strictest military censorship is imposed on events in Bari. All the papers are classified Top Secret. It is Churchill himself who gives the order that all British files remove any reference to mustard gas, in sharp contrast to the Americans.
Why was the aerial bombardment of the port of Bari one of the biggest secrets of World War II? Why did the Allies send a ship full of chemical weapons to Italy? What was it for? Why did Churchill insist on always denying that there was mustard gas at Bari despite all the evidence? Did the Germans really find out that a ship full of mustard gas exploded at Bari? Who knew about the cargo of mustard gas at Bari when the ship exploded? Was everything possible done to save the victims, or were they sacrificed for military secrecy?
The documentary will be structured like a detective story. The excellent enquiry documents, found in a variety of archives scattered all over the world, will serve as the basis for the documentary, along with interviews with surviving eyewitnesses.
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sdcinematografica uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
"Voll besetz" -- "completamente pieno": è la mattina del 2 dicembre 1943 quando Werner Hahn, pilota di un ricognitore tedesco, ...
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"Voll besetz" -- "completamente pieno": è la mattina del 2 dicembre 1943 quando Werner Hahn, pilota di un ricognitore tedesco, comunica alla sua base che il porto di Bari è gremito di navi. Allo Stato Maggiore della Luftwaffe in Italia non aspettano altro. La stessa sera 105 bombardieri tedeschi JU 88 colgono completamente di sorpresa le difese alleate: alla fine dell'incursione 17 navi saranno distrutte, il porto di Bari sarà reso inutilizzabile per molte settimane.
Ma non è finita: centinaia di marinai e di cittadini si recano negli ospedali: non hanno preso fuoco, non hanno ferite, ma cominciano ad averi eritemi sulla pelle, bruciature agli occhi, problemi respiratori: molti iniziano inspiegabilmente a morire.
Perché? Che cosa sta succedendo? Quale segreto militare si celava dietro questi strani decessi?
E' Eisenhower stesso ad inviare un suo ufficiale medico per fare luce sugli avvenimenti: un mercantile americano, la John Harvey, trasportava un segretissimo carico: bombe all'iprite - un velenosissimo gas letale - vietato dalle Convenzioni di Guerra del 1925. E' esploso nel porto, ha disperso nell'aria le sue 550 tonnellate di gas mortale.
Una rigidissima censura militare verrà imposta sugli avvenimenti di Bari. Tutta la documentazione viene classificata e diventa Top Secret; ad imporre la segretezza è Churchill stesso, che nei documenti britannici fa eliminare qualsiasi riferimento all'iprite, in profondo contrasto con gli americani.
Perché il bombardamento aereo del Porto di Bari è stato uno dei maggiori segreti della 2. Guerra Mondiale? Perché gli Alleati trasportavano una nave carica di armi chimiche in Italia? A cosa serviva? Perché Churchill, ostinatamente, negherà sempre, di fronte all'evidenza, che a Bari vi fosse dell'iprite? Davvero i tedeschi vennero a sapere che a Bari era scoppiata una nave carica di iprite? Chi era a conoscenza del carico di iprite a Bari quando la nave scoppiò? Fu fatto tutto il possibile per salvare le vite umane o furono sacrificate in nome della segretezza militare?
Il documentario sarà strutturato come un'investigazione. Gli eccezionali documenti d'inchiesta originali ritrovati nei vari archivi sparsi nel mondo costituiranno la base per la realizzazione del documentario, insieme alle interviste di alcuni testimoni ancora in vita.
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sdcinematografica uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
This series includes 26 short docs, each one 8 minutes in length, and has been created for an audience of children between the ages of 4-10. It is ...
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This series includes 26 short docs, each one 8 minutes in length, and has been created for an audience of children between the ages of 4-10. It is like a big container of information, curiosity, and it answers many of questions frequently asked by children about the natural world. The series' objective is to depict, reveal, and therefore help them understand the extraordinary world of nature, and unveil the secret life of the wild inhabitants of our planet, their features, their habits, but also their behavior, and the interesting facts surrounding their extravagant adaptation to the natural environment that surrounds them. Being familiar with the natural world represents the first step towards loving, respecting, and defending our extraordinary natural treasures. The entire series is like an adventurous journey with different stops, each one independent from the others, but all linked by a common topic: an exploratory journey in the fascinating world of animal life! www.sdcinematografica.it info@sdcinematografica.it
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