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Documentaries/Movies
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
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).
- Official page
- IMDb
- Watch the film for free on Tubi
About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II
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