A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service)...
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, t...
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...