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Patria (2014)
True story and well made
Nice true story of a Dutch-Indonesian who joined the French Foreign Legion to fight for France in World War 1. Mostly Dutch spoken with some minor parts in French and in German. Well made for the small budget, giving a decent view of life in the WW1 trenches.
Minor error at the end when the movie suggests Arthur Knaap is dying in 1933 with a radio speech of Hitler in the background. According to Wikipedia he actually died in 1938.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Great overview of WW2
Recently I watched this documentary series about World War II in (HD) color on Netflix and really liked it. In 14 episodes you get to see a well documented overview of WW2, starting with the events leading up to WW2 in both Europe and Sout-East Asia, the beginning stages with the fast advances both Germany and Italy made in Europe, and Japan in Asia, the mistakes made by the aggressors, the fighting back by the allied forces on different theatres, and ultimately the victories over Germany , Italy and Japan.
The interesting part about this series is that the original black & white footage has been coloured by advanced colouring techniques. While you can occasionally spot the clearly artificial colouring, most of the times it is unobtrusive and hardly noticeable. Watching these scenes in colour definitely add an aspect of realism to them, compared to the same scenes in black & white.
There are many documentaries about World War II, and this documentary deserves a good place between them.