1936, in the aftermath of the Ethiopian occupation by Fascist Italy, under the incredulous gaze of the inhabitants of the small town in the Italian province Abraham Imirrù, an ethiopian prince and guerrila fighter is being held prisoner in the local Podesta garden's aviary. But for little Emilio, local recently force enlisted and reality-dissociated Balilla, he is Sandokan, the literal Salgari's character ...and he will be his hero.
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croati...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
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.
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 Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS....
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue h...
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. ...
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...
In WWII's final years, a soldier in the German army, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch resistance ...
Tony Robinson’s VE Day: Minute By Minute will take a unique look at a pivotal day in the history of ...
In the darkest days of World War II, St. Peter's was shrouded in the shadow of the swastika. But eve...