The director of the movie Glory and the Last Samurai Edward Zwick is currently making a movie Defiance about the Bielskis - Belarus Jewish partisans...these were the subject of an interesting documentary a few years ago with Ray Mears (a British survivalist broadcaster) - showing how they lived in the freezing conditions defying the German army. Watch Extreme Survival episode on the Belarus partisans with Ray Mears hereIf the idea of an extreme survival programme sounds naff to you - its more of a history programme really with interviews and so on.
