In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados.

In 1915, the First World War is in full swing and young men are called to military service in rows -...

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

In WWII's final years, a soldier in the German army, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch resistance ...

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

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sen...

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day,...

War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy ...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

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

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter los...

A story about a fictional South African police base on the border between Angola and the former Sout...

Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins th...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...