Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It...

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their ...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

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.

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

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...

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled ex...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look a...