Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
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...
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.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...