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 the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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.
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diar...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to ...
In the seventy two hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element...
Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam...
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...
In May 1943, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the new head of the Reich Central Security Office, gave Hitler a r...
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 19...
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war fo...
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...