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 chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...

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

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

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.

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

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.

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored...

Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast...

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...