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
April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the i...
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
Nebi Surreli lives in poverty along with his mother. Doing small jobs to earn a living, he also help...
In Fascist Albania 1942, Albanian partisans will do all they can to remove the Italian fascists from...
Vlash Zaka is a poor villager who secures his living by capturing wild horses in the forest. His bro...
During world war II the headmaster tells a boy he received a letter from his parents and he needs to...
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...
While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order t...
Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...
Relive one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history that led to the systematic starvati...
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Irel...
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. Afte...