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.

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

"Green Day: The Early Years" chronicles the rise of the world's most influential punk band, from the...

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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...

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

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...