Magnificent documentary epic on the German Occupation of France. Directed by Marcel Ophuls, this study in the psychology of history makes us ask what we and our friends and families would actually have done if our country had been invaded, like France. It’s both oral history and essay: people who lived through the German Occupation tell us what they did during that catastrophic period, and we see and hear evidence that corroborates or corrects or sometimes flatly contradicts them. What makes the film innovative is the immediate annotation of what has just been said. As the perspectives ramify, we begin to get a fuller sense of what it was like to participate in the moral drama of an occupied nation than we have ever had.