Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
A group of unlikely allies modernized college sports and changed a small Midwestern town, serving as...
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his unt...
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged ...
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...
Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short...
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife,...
"Nora" is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. In ...
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...