In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, whe...

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: h...

A trip into grandma's intimate life shows the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20t...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...

Still today, people say that during the stormy night from March 31st to April 1st, 1922, the devil h...

In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish ...

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being...

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turi...

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before dec...

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...

Set in the dense forests of 1940s Eastern Europe, this story reveals the supernatural encounters tha...

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces the rise of Nazism in general and the career of Adolf Eic...

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War...

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.