During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand people managed to elude their pursuers, and probably also avoided being killed, thanks to the heroic and very efficient efforts of the Ponzán Team, a brave group of people — mountain guides, forgers, safe house keepers and many others —, led by Francisco Ponzán Vidal, who managed to save their lives, both on one side and the other of the border between Spain and France.
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
Richard Overton, at 109 years old, is the oldest living WWII veteran. He lives alone, still drives, ...
An epic family saga told by the women around the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
A young lieutenant must persuade a captive resistance fighter to betray his comrades, or enforce a l...
An extraordinary journey into the past to that fateful day, June 6, 1944. Relive the event of D-Day ...
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished ...
March 1943. In the middle of the Italian occupation of Corsica, two Communist resistance brothers st...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...