Our Films

True stories of real people: what they remember, what they overcome, and what they leave behind.

Documentary First Productions makes films from firsthand accounts, the people who were there, telling it in their own words. It began in Normandy with the award-winning The Girl Who Wore Freedom. Now the stories reach from the beaches of D-Day to the Dutch villages the 101st Airborne liberated, and beyond the war, to films like UnScarred and Five Great Lakes.

The Girl Who Wore Freedom

Directed by Christian Taylor

About the film

An untold love story of two nations. Through the eyes of Dany Patrix and the people of Normandy, the film reveals the bond between the French and the Americans who liberated them in 1944.

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Grueling Glory

Directed by Christian Taylor

About the film

Hundreds of reenactors march through Carentan, Normandy, to honor 101st Airborne veteran Tom Rice. A story of liberation, remembrance and the people who keep both alive.

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Heroes of Carentan

Directed by Christian Taylor

About the film

A boy of six when the war reached his doorstep, Yves Marchais is among the last who remember Carentan under occupation and the battle that set it free. Yves carries us back to the 101st Airborne paratroopers who paid for that freedom, before only the record remains.

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Directed by Christian Taylor

About the film

Eighty-two years after the 101st Airborne liberated their villages, the Dutch still say thank you. The last eyewitnesses hand their memories to the next generation, and ask what that remembrance demands of us now.

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The Brave Dutch

Directed by Christian Taylor

About the film

When his bomber went down over the occupied Netherlands on 29 April 1944, Lt. John Low of Laurel, Mississippi, was hidden by Dutch families and resistance fighters on the Veluwe. Drawn from his own account, the film tells the story of the ordinary people who risked everything to save him.

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