On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of shocking footage. Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment. Even in its incomplete form (available since 1984) the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by IWM, is being compared with Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955).
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
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 ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of L...
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Toge...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
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...
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission a...