The secret past of a World War II-era intelligence officer comes to light when his grandson, actor Joonas Saartamo, begins to investigate his grandfather's activities as the leader of a long-range reconnaissance patrol. Meeting various experts along the way, Saartamo discovers a new insight into the crucial role of long-range reconnaissance patrols in war. He also realizes how strongly the weight of his grandfather's war experiences has been passed down from generation to generation, affecting him directly.
Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...
The Unknown Woman is a documentary film scripted and directed by Elina Kivihalme. It depicts the rea...
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war fo...
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a ...
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who play...
Around 80 years ago, the gynecologist Carl Clauberg conducted medical experimentation on Jewish girl...
This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest geogra...
They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. They were fanatics ...
On August 6, 1945, the first-ever nuclear bomb deployed in war was dropped on the city of Hiroshima ...
They were going to become heroes, but they didn't know it. Most of them were not yet twenty years ol...
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned...
A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Camp...
June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of partic...
A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most m...
On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in his...