At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
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...
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of L...
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
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...
A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who...
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...
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...
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...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...