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.

One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during ...

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British No...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

Using obscure archival footage, animated illustrations and interviews, this film tells the story of ...

The story focuses on the exploits of rivals Reinhard von Lohengramm and Yang Wen-li, as they rise to...

An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arab...

After breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy f...

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...

Warsaw, Poland, 1953. Mr. T., a renowned writer, lives in a hotel and earns his living by giving pri...

A sickly scrawny man in a striped uniform takes a shaving brush and foam, and with a sharp blade, he...

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough m...

In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that ...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial ...

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real w...

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit h...

War - In this thrilling war drama set in Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commando...