When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. Duri...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

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...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...

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...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can sho...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...