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.
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
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...
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.
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
In a moment captured in time, die-hard Italian fascists conduct reprisal executions of civilians in ...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during...