Famed documentarian Marcel Ophuls has died at age 97. One of the leading filmmakers to capture the political atrocities of the 20th century, Ophuls famously directed “The Sorrow and the Pity ...

Marcel Ophuls, the acclaimed French-German documentary filmmaker whose probing explorations of history and memory helped shaped the genre for decades, has died at the age of 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 ...

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, 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, 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 ...