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.

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...

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.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...