100 Years of Poland 2018: Films Series Starts 1st July till mid September 2018 This Polish films series covers a wide range of periods, styles and genres, including struggles for freedom and life under foreign[...]

”Soviet Story’ is the most powerful antidote yet to the sanitation of the past. This film is gripping, audacious and uncompromising.’ The Economist This is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis[...]

This film is about the 1940 Katyn massacre directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards. In the movie the events of Katyn are related[...]

In September 1939 Poland was overrun by the German and Russian, yet the Polish fighting spirit remained unbroken… They were displaced fighting forces, which would exact revenge for the occupation of Poland, fighting first in[...]

Ron Jeffery was described by the Gestapo as “one of the foxiest devils in Europe” His wartime adventures as a courier, spy and even executioner have all the hallmarks of a fantastic spy thriller– but it’s[...]

Artwork by Lindy Fisher Teacher Only Session for the PHTM In house lesson: Identity/Migration: Polish children arrive in 1944 You are warmly invited to a Teacher Only Session for the Learning Outside The Classroom, PHTM[...]

‘Battle of Warsaw – Uprising in 1944 / Bitwa o Warszawe – Powstanie w 44’ dir. Wanda Koscia (2005). History of the Warsaw Uprising, the bloodiest military action taken by the only underground army in[...]

 

 

 

In 1976, a young woman, Agnieszka is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of Birkut, at how that heroism was created, and what became of him. She gets hold of[...]

Hosted Visit, open to individuals and small groups: join our popular tour of the galleries. Hear an introductory talk and watch the film ‘Poles Apart’. The programme will start at 1pm, with a look around the Lower[...]

In 1980, during the strikes in Gdansk, Wajda visited the shipyard. A worker shouted to him “Now you must make a film about our story – ‘Man of Iron.’ The workers thus directly commissioned Wajda’s[...]