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.

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

The filmmaker interviews still surviving residents of Las Hurdes, where Buñuel shot a controversial ...

Documentary about the painter Lucian Freud.

Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little roost...

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although sco...

A story about the clash of two cultures, two worlds - traditional Tajik culture and the new, invadin...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

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

A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in...

Documentary following six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were held in U.S. internment camps duri...

80 years ago, Marseille's Old Port was the scene of a tragic event that is still largely unknown tod...

A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petio...

This documentary examines how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism, occult...

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...