The Sorrow and the Pity

This four-hour long documentary, which concerns French cooperation and collaboration with the German Nazi occupation in World War II, was originally contracted by French state television. When they saw footage from it, French TV refused to air it or have anything to do with it. It was too damning, and shot holes into too many fond but incorrect notions (i.e., that the Resistance was all-pervasive in France). Indeed, the filmmakers were more-or-less blacklisted and thereafter could not work ...