Culture.pl has selected 10 of these films which show the war through the eyes of Poles – from the reels of the great Wajda, to a war movie where there are no heroes, to the Polish-French story of nuns ...

For the most part, Polish cinema at the time was able to avoid the rigorous censorship, and tell stories of folk heroes from both during and after the war. In 1957, Andrzej Wajda's Kanał / Canal, won ...

Two films by Polish directors have been included in The ... "Perel miraculously survived World War II and the Holocaust by passing—first as a Young Pioneer in an orphanage in a Soviet-occupied ...

Since the end of the most deadly conflict in human history, hundreds of World War 2 movies have been produced ... who saved the lives of 1100 Polish Jews by employing them in his factories.

The Polish Club in Kirkcaldy, Fife, has been a centre of social and cultural life for almost 70 years. It was founded by veterans who were unable to return home after fighting in World War Two.