Marcel Ophuls, the acclaimed French Jewish documentary filmmaker whose landmark 1969 film “The Sorrow and the Pity” compelled France to confront its national shame over its collaborationist ...

PARIS – Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis ...

Marcel Ophuls, the renowned, Oscar-winning documentarian whose controversial and epic “The Sorrow and the Pity” was a worldwide success, has died. He was 97.

Marcel Ophuls, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark documentary "The Sorrow and the Pity" debunked the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II ...

Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls has died at the age of 97. Recognized as one of the great documentarians of his era, he died on Saturday, as confirmed by his grandson, Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert.

FILE - Director Marcel Ophuls shows the Berlinale Camera award after he is honored for his lifetime achievement during the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015.

Marcel Ophuls, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark documentary "The Sorrow and the Pity" debunked the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II ...

Marcel Ophuls, the Oscar-winning, German-born French filmmaker whose powerfully eloquent documentaries confronted difficult political, moral and philosophical issues, has died. He was 97.