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.

As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied P...

In 2011, photographer Tanja Hollander decided to visit each one of her Facebook "friends" (all 626 o...

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

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and t...

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

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...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led ...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a G...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...