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Names follow the December 2004 ''Variety'' review of the film. Archival footage also includes public figures who were not Ritchie Boys. | Names follow the December 2004 ''Variety'' review of the film. Archival footage also includes public figures who were not Ritchie Boys. | ||
* Related reading: [[Schwab, Henry (32681038)|Henry Schwab]] — [https://ritchieboys.com/DL/schwab_article.pdf Article in The Israel Philatelist by Henry Schwab, W. Hyannisport, MA] (© The Israel Philatelist - April, 2005) | |||
* Related reading: [[Meyer, Alfred G. (0555182)|Alfred G. Meyer]] — [[The Stories/My Life as a Fish|excerpts from ''My Life as a Fish'']] ([https://ritchieboys.com/DL/fish203.pdf Ch. 3], [https://ritchieboys.com/DL/fish204.pdf Ch. 4], [https://ritchieboys.com/DL/fish205.pdf Ch. 5]); © 2000 Alfred G. Meyer. All rights reserved. Shared by Vera Meyer. | |||
* Related reading: [[The Stories/Life in Camp Ritchie|Life in Camp Ritchie]] — film quotes on training life ([https://ritchieboys.com/EN/camp_life.html source page on ritchieboys.com]). | |||
* Related media: [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html Press photos] from the film site (© TANGRAM; high-resolution downloads linked there). | |||
* Related reading: Christian Bauer, “[https://ritchieboys.com/DL/focus-en.pdf At War Against Their Home Country]” — report in ''FOCUS'', May 2004 (English PDF on the film site; from [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_reviews.html press reviews]). | |||
* Related reading: [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/story.html Official film synopsis] (© TANGRAM 2004). | |||
* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/home.html Official page] | * [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/home.html Official page] | ||
* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_reviews.html Press reviews] | |||
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435725/ IMDb] | * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435725/ IMDb] | ||
* Watch the film for free on [https://tubitv.com/movies/677039/the-ritchie-boys Tubi] | * Watch the film for free on [https://tubitv.com/movies/677039/the-ritchie-boys Tubi] | ||
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* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438755/ IMDb] | * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438755/ IMDb] | ||
* Watch the film for free on [https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Jewish-Refugee-Soldiers/dp/B089VCPVTF Amazon Freevee] or [https://tubitv.com/movies/560092/about-face-the-story-of-the-jewish-refugee-soldiers-of-world-war-ii Tubi] | * Watch the film for free on [https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Jewish-Refugee-Soldiers/dp/B089VCPVTF Amazon Freevee] or [https://tubitv.com/movies/560092/about-face-the-story-of-the-jewish-refugee-soldiers-of-world-war-ii Tubi] | ||
== Press photos from the film site == | |||
High-resolution stills published for Christian Bauer’s ''The Ritchie Boys'' ([https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html press photos page]). Credits: © TANGRAM (some by Harald Stuckmann). | |||
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Documentary Ritchie Boys VE Day Stern Sears Howard press.jpg|V-E Day team: Guy Stern, Walter Sears, Fred Howard (© TANGRAM) | |||
Documentary Ritchie Boys today composite press.jpg|Brombert, Howard, Lewen, Stern today (© TANGRAM) | |||
Documentary Ritchie Boys Camp Ritchie shoot press.jpg|Bauer filming at Camp Ritchie (© TANGRAM / Harald Stuckmann) | |||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
Latest revision as of 04:32, 16 September 2026
Documentaries/Movies lists notable films about the Ritchie Boys or featuring interviews with them.
Play a trailer on this page, then follow the free-watch links for the full film. Soldier lists name Ritchie Boys confirmed to appear — not a complete cast, and not every interviewee in About Face trained at Camp Ritchie. Oral-history interviews are on Ritchie Boy Interviews. Please contact us if you think a title should be added.
The Ritchie Boys[edit | edit source]
a film by Christian Bauer
"The Ritchie Boys" is the untold story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned to Europe as soldiers in US uniforms. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anybody else. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Not always courageous, but determined, bright, and inventive they fought their own kind of war. They saved lives. They were victors, not victims.
Trailer
Ritchie Boys in this film
- Werner T. Angress
- Victor Brombert
- Philip Glaessner
- Fred Howard
- Si Lewen
- Rudolf Michaels
- Morris Parloff
- Richard Schifter
- Hans Spear
- Guy Stern
Names follow the December 2004 Variety review of the film. Archival footage also includes public figures who were not Ritchie Boys.
- Related reading: Henry Schwab — Article in The Israel Philatelist by Henry Schwab, W. Hyannisport, MA (© The Israel Philatelist - April, 2005)
- Related reading: Alfred G. Meyer — excerpts from My Life as a Fish (Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5); © 2000 Alfred G. Meyer. All rights reserved. Shared by Vera Meyer.
- Related reading: Life in Camp Ritchie — film quotes on training life (source page on ritchieboys.com).
- Related media: Press photos from the film site (© TANGRAM; high-resolution downloads linked there).
- Related reading: Christian Bauer, “At War Against Their Home Country” — report in FOCUS, May 2004 (English PDF on the film site; from press reviews).
- Related reading: Official film synopsis (© TANGRAM 2004).
- Official page
- Press reviews
- IMDb
- Watch the film for free on Tubi
About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II[edit | edit source]
a film by Steve Karras
Documents the as-yet-untold WWII story of young Jewish men and women who escaped certain death at the hands of the Nazis…and returned to fight them in Europe and North Africa. Told via the recollections of these brave men and women, the film chronicles the journey from Nazi victim, to refugee and finally, to Allied soldiers and spies.
Trailer
Ritchie Boys in this film
This list is incomplete. Not everyone interviewed in the film trained at Camp Ritchie.
- Karl Goldsmith / Karl Goldschmidt — interview filmed for the documentary in Bedminster, NJ, February 2001 (see the Karl Goldsmith interview)
- Official page
- IMDb
- Watch the film for free on Amazon Freevee or Tubi
Press photos from the film site[edit | edit source]
High-resolution stills published for Christian Bauer’s The Ritchie Boys (press photos page). Credits: © TANGRAM (some by Harald Stuckmann).
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V-E Day team: Guy Stern, Walter Sears, Fred Howard (© TANGRAM) -
Brombert, Howard, Lewen, Stern today (© TANGRAM) -
Bauer filming at Camp Ritchie (© TANGRAM / Harald Stuckmann)
