Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
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...
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...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...
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.
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When ...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service)...
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, t...
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. ...
In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against ...