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WWII in Color: Road to Victory (2021)
Episode 6 - Liberation of Paris
The episode 6 (Liberation of Paris) provides misleading information and facts. Colonel Rol-Tanguy was a key figure of the French Communist Party and as the leader of the FFI in the Parisien region his role was to guide and to coordinate the work of all the resistance factions; the episode "deliberately" failed to mention his communist affiliation and described him only as the leader of the FFI under De Gaulle leadership.
The messenger sent to meet General Patton to convince him to advance to Paris was a french communist sent by Rol-Tanguy (the episode mentions the fact but states in parallel that De Gaulle was worried that the liberation of Paris is orchestrated by the communists and therefore the messenger would confirm his concerns!).
FFI include it all the resistance factions with the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans "FTP" (communists) as the most prominent; the episode "intentionally" seperates the communists from the FFI by mentioning that De Gaulle invited the communist resistants and the FFI resistants (under Rol-Tanguy) to join the French army after the liberation of Paris!
Producing a historical documentary requires an accurate statement of facts; Netflix failed in that particulary, the episode was generally mediocre and partially deceptive.
The Spy (2019)
One-sided story and weak production
An extremely one-sided and pro-israeli description of Eli Cohen's spy adventure with a huge lack of knowledge of the Arab/Israeli conflict (i.e. Palestine or Palestinians are not mentioned in the feature as if the war/tension between Syria and Israel is a separate conflict!).
The acting and the script are relatively goofy, in addition the use of English (with Jewish and Arabic accents) instead of Arabic and Hebrew have weakened the story, although the cinematography is good.
Unfortunately, not worth watching.