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The uprising was the subject of Aleksander Ford's 1948 film Border Street, Leon Uris's 1961 novel Mila 18, Andrzej Wajda's films A Generation (1955) and The Holy Week (1995), and the 2001 film Uprising. It was also portrayed in the 1978 NBC miniseries Holocaust by Marvin J. Chomsky and the 2002 film The Pianist by Roman Polanski. The revolt was briefly featured in the 1986 fantasy film Highlander (as well as in the 1997 novel Highlander: Zealot) and the 2009 video game Velvet Assassin. Songs about the uprising include Hirsh Glick's "Zog Nit Keynmol" (a Jewish song written in 1943), Johnny Clegg's "Warsaw 1943" and David Rovics' "I Remember Warsaw".
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