Aleksander Ford Movies

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

Filmed immediately after the Red Army liberated the Majdanek concentration camp, this documentary is regarded as the first cinematic record of Nazi...

Józek enters a cycling race to win a bike, which he needs to deliver newspapers and pay for his mother's surgery.

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in...

When in a small village appears a little boy named Olek, the life of its inhabitants change. Olek senses danger.

The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.

The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to...

Based on the biography of the Polish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak, the film retells the last phase of his life. Korczak, director of the Jewish...

Feliks Promienski inherits from his aunt a small clay figurine representing a pagan god and from that moment happiness begins to favor him. Lost film.

Describe the harsh reality attempts of establishing a Jewish settlement in Israel and the efforts of the Arab to prevent it. The film is considered...

One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem...

After a long job search, the main character of the film receives an offer of employment with a wealthy family as a private tutor. She quickly decides...

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of...

Alexander Ford was 72 years old when he committed suicide on April 4, 1980 in Naples, Florida. The film is an attempt to answer the question of why...

A serious Swiss melodrama/documentary about abortion, marketed as a sexy exploitation movie in the US. The film contains real medical footage.

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a...