An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi officer.
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
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...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, ...
The story of the rise to stardom of Joaquin Phoenix, an actor of magnetic physique, tumultuous past,...
At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgen...
Jacques Rozier or the fierce, independent itinerary of a filmmaker in perpetual disarray, admired by...
50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 t...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in ...
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the Afri...
This documentary contains dramatized episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant...
The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywo...
Father Edward J. Flanagan is a familiar name to many Americans, often for the Oscar-winning 1938 fil...
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...