After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking f...
Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. W...
The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eas...
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother ...
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, hus...
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman...
Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imag...
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbau...
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a vi...
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group ...
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a sec...
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...
On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in his...
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 19...
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with n...
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowin...
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...