North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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...
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related ...
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...
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destru...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his ...
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...
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves...
In an apocalyptic future world, a young upper class couple is visiting an exhibition of surrealistic...