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 true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
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 Cistercian monks of Austria are holy men who rise at 4:30 a.m., pray for more than four hours a ...
The story that was silenced for 91 years was revealed for the first time: in August 1933 the leaders...
Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey ...
A documentary about special makeup effects on low budget horror films. Includes behind-the-scenes fo...
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...
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 ...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
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...
The extraordinary story of comedian Bob Monkhouse's life and career, told through the vast private a...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.