(Canada/Germany, 2004, 93 min., English)
Directed by Christian Bauer
This fascinating documentary captures the little-known story of a group of young Jewish men who fled Nazi Europe later to return as soldiers in the US military. Trained as intelligence officers at top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, they used their knowledge of enemy psychology and language to help liberate their former homelands. Not always courageous heroes, but determined and inventive, they fought and won their own kind of war. Powerful and entertaining, the film is fueled by the articulate and witty stories of ten surviving Ritchie Boys.
