[4] Jonas Mekas (2007) notes the incredible circumstances of De Laurot's life, including his experiences in the Polish Resistance and surviving the second Warsaw Uprising during World War II.
In a video interview Mekas recounts how Laurot would tell the friends of the engaged cinema group tall stories including how he was chosen by the Polish resistance in Warsaw to swim across the river Wisla, under German fire, and deliver a message to the Soviets on the other bank, which was too incredible for anyone to believe, yet a Washington lawyer later confirmed the story on a visit to Warsaw – Laudański in fact was the messenger who swam the river.
[5][6] In his interview "Yves de Laurot defines Cinema engagé" (Cinéaste, Spring 1970) Laurot/Laudański describes how he first held a film camera.
According to Laurot a young German soldier, despite having a gun, was persuaded to surrender and teach the partisans how to use the camera in exchange for his life.
It included interviews with Noam Chomsky and others, and it focused on the political polarization of the New Left and the Right, the Anti War Movement, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the 1968 Presidential Elections.