Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 1941, and the years of food shortages, abuses, and other hardships that followed. They describe their childhood lives before, during, and after the island's occupation by Japanese soldiers.
Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanis...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
In June 1940 nothing was written. The appeal of June 18 by General de Gaulle was a hope but also a s...
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in ...
This drama-documentary evokes what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Roo...
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...
We've all heard of the atomic bomb, but in the late 1950s, an idea was conceived of a bomb which wou...
At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded pe...
Irina was only 3 years old when her mother, a worker at the Kirov Plant, decided to evacuate her fro...
October 24, 1944, the world’s greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan’s navy gambles...
This captivating documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the architect of the atomic bomb, explores hi...
Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleei...
The story that was silenced for 91 years was revealed for the first time: in August 1933 the leaders...
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.