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.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
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...
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...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intellige...
Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's di...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
Funding ceased due to Brexit pullout by backers. In the early hours of the 6th of June 1944 Allied ...
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportati...
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...
Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the...
During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba...
The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and...