Watch Les Femmes de l'ombre

The French Resistance was instrumental in combating the Nazis in World War II. This film celebrates the women in the movement who were recruited by Great Britain’s spy program. The women, brought aboard by various means, are given a high-level assignment. They are to free a British spy captured by the Germans on the eve of the Allied Invasion in Normandy. Soon they face an even more dangerous mission. They are to kill a top German intelligence commander close to discovering details of the invasion. This film provides a glimpse into a little-known aspect of the Second World War.