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The BBC’s Storyville strand, which sets out to showcase the world’s best international documentaries, has picked up a new slate of eight films.

They will be screened on BBC Four and iPlayer over eight weeks starting Jan. 26.

“We’re excited to offer U.K. audiences this eclectic range of documentaries from around the globe,” Philippa Kowarsky, commissioning editor of Storyville, said in a statement.

“These stories deal with the issues of our times, from mistrust of political systems to the challenges of educational attainment, and from class and racial discrimination to the fight for women’s rights. They shine a light on some truly inspirational, and some controversial, characters, as well as some appealing canines!”

Check out the full slate below:

“Final Account” [Pictured above]

About the last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich

Filmed and Directed by Luke Holland

Produced by John Battsek, Luke Holland,...

The USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with Participant and Focus Features to unveil a new initiative for university and upper-level high school educators, aimed at combatting antisemitism, and promoting education surrounding the Holocaust.

The initiative coming to USC’s IWitness education platform centers on Final Account, a 2020 documentary brought to life for Participant and Focus by the late Luke Holland over the course of 10 years, making its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year. The doc offers up a collection of never-before-seen interviews with men and women ranging from former SS officials to civilians as they reckon, in very different ways, with their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their roles in the Holocaust.

The documentary raising timely questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and responsibility does not aim to retell the history of the Nazi era, but rather to depict how these people relate to this history and...

Focus Features has nabbed worldwide rights to Luke Holland’s “Final Account,” a documentary about the last living generation from Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The announcement was tied to International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Focus plans to release the film — in collaboration with Participant Media — in the U.S. on May 21, 2021. Universal Pictures International will distribute the film overseas, excluding Israel.

“Final Account” was filmed, directed and produced over the course of the past decade by the late Holland, whose credits also include the docs “I Was a Slave Labourer” and “Good Morning Mr. Hitler.”

The documentary combines hundreds of hours of never-before-seen interview with men and women — ranging from SS members to civilians — to record their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the Holocaust.

Variety praised “Final Account” following its world premiere at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. Critic Jay Weissberg wrote, “Holland’s most important...

Focus Features will release Participant’s documentary Final Account which is directed and produced by the late Luke Holland, setting a date of May 21. Focus has global rights outside of Israel. Universal International will distribute the feature abroad.

The announcement comes today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Filmed over ten years, Final Account is a portrait of the last living generation of people to everyday participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The doc, whick made its premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival, raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with – in very different ways – their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.

In addition to Holland, Final Account is produced by John Battsek and Riete Oord.

The late Luke Holland directed and produced film over 10 years.

Focus Features announced on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) it has picked up worldwide rights excluding Israel to Participant’s Holocaust documentary Final Account.

Directed and produced by the late Luke Holland over the course of 10 years, the film premiered in Venice last year.

The Final Account presents a portrait of the last living generation of people who participated in the Third Reich, and contains interviews with a range of subjects from members of the SS to civilians.

John Battsek and Riete Oord also serve as producers, while Participant’s...

U.S. documentary specialist Submarine Entertainment and Israel-based sales company Cinephil are teaming up with Participant Media to distribute the Luke Holland-directed documentary “Final Account,” about the legacy of Nazism, which is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September.

Submarine is teaming with Participant to jointly represent the film’s domestic sales, while Cinephil will handle international sales outside the U.S.

The high-profile doc is a deeply researched depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

This oral history of the Third Reich raises “vital questions about authority, conformity, complicity, national identity, responsibility and historical reckoning,” according to promotional materials, showing how men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians contend “in very different ways with their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.”

Holland, who spent...