Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals the lead-up to the offensive, its impact on the war and the brinksmanship that resulted from the battle for Moscow. Rare footage from both German and Russian archives and detailed maps illustrate the conflict, while award-winning historian and author John Erickson provides insight into the pivotal maneuvers on the eastern front.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
The 30-minute film centers around a group of high school students who became nurses called Himeyuri ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

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.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and...

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of ...