Shot primarily by twelve French cameramen (led by filmmakers Jean Painlevé and Jean Grémillon), in August 1944, this film captures the final French insurrection in German-occupied Paris, the surrender of the Germans, and the mass celebration in the streets. (There is an English-language version narrated by Noel Coward.)

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is publ...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) i...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

Against the backdrop of a world on the brink, the Montford Point Marines transcended enemy lines and...

The exit door of the Bataclan theatre, the site of Bansky's mural, The Sad Girl, is stolen mysteriou...

Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité f...

Researcher Hannelore Witkovsky searches for the notorious Nazi war criminal Dr. Joseph Mengele's los...

In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horror...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.


Behind the iconic Eiffel Tower lies the story of an incredible challenge to erect a thousand-foot to...

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...

CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the ...

František Fajtl and Filip Jánský were among the few Czechoslovak airmen who actively fought on all m...