Documentary

Author’s mission to document fate of Lower Silesia’s forgotten palaces reveals ‘harrowing agony of a silent apocalypse’

Hannibal Smoke’s ‘The Silent Apocalypse - The ruined palaces of Lower Silesia’ is an emotive and harrowing tale documenting the fate of the region’s hundreds of abandoned palaces and estates. Damian Marcińczak

Hannibal Smoke’s ‘The Silent Apocalypse - The ruined palaces of Lower Silesia’ is an emotive and harrowing tale documenting the fate of the region’s hundreds of abandoned palaces and estates.

Harrowing documentary examining fate of refugees takes top award

VIDEO: Filmed in the Colombian border town of Cúcuta, Dominika Kulczyk’s ’For Our Children’ is ‘a tribute to the heroism of people fighting for survival and a dignified life’ as they flee neighbouring Venezuela.

Twelve Polish films to be screened at IDFA festival

A dozen Polish documentaries will be shown at this year's IDFA documentary film festival in Amsterdam, the Polish Film Institute announced on Thursday.

Powerful documentary The Wall of Shadows takes top prize at Norwegian film festival

VIDEO: The film by Eliza Kubarska and Monika Braid tells the story of Sherpa family which breaks a sacred taboo by agreeing to lead a group of westerners up the Kumbhakarna Mountain so that they can earn money for their son's school.

Documentary turns life-saving clams used to detect water pollution at Warsaw pumping station into internet stars

The film, ‘Gruba Kaśka’, focuses on the modest molluscs who live at the titular Gruba Kaśka (Fat Kathy) pumping station, which stands in the River Wisła, and helps provide millions of litres of water for the Polish capital.

Astonishing story of unsung WWII hero premieres in captivating new documentary

With his unconventional, intelligent command and axiom "A Polish soldier fights for the freedom of all nations, but dies only for Poland" General Stanisław Maczek’s soldiers spearheaded the Allied drive through Western Europe, playing a key role in the  liberation of France, Belgium and Holland. Using dramatized scenes, the new documentary follows his path through Ukraine, Poland, France, the Netherlands and finally Scotland, where after the war he ended up working as a hotel barman.

New film explores work of a man dedicated to finding the untouched tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh

TFN speaks to the man on the hunt for a pharaoh’s tomb and the woman filming what could be one of the great archaeological discoveries.

One man’s quest to uncover the human stories behind hidden WWII treasures

History sleuth Łukasz Kazek has spent years uncovering long-forgotten treasures and researching the histories of the people who hid them. The result is a fascinating new documentary called Powiernik (Confidant).

Film about Polish and Hungarian WWII heroes to be released on Monday

A documentary about Henryk Sławik and Jozsef Antall Sr., a Polish politician and a Hungarian government commissioner, respectively, who saved around 5,000 Polish Jews in Hungary during WWII, will have its premiere in Katowice, south Poland, on Monday.

Polish studies big in Japan

A new documentary film reveals how Japanese students are embracing Polish studies.

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