The code to unlocking this feature documentary is 1949, the year the director was born, and also the year of the return of Soviet repressions to Latvia. The film tells a very personal story against the background of less visited historic events – the death of director’s father due to the KGB repressions, which is closely linked to the devious game Soviet Latvia’s KGB played against Swedish-British-American spy agencies.
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
Richard Overton, at 109 years old, is the oldest living WWII veteran. He lives alone, still drives, ...
An epic family saga told by the women around the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
In 1964, a sensation swept through Australian lounge rooms leaving an indelible impression on the ch...
An extraordinary journey into the past to that fateful day, June 6, 1944. Relive the event of D-Day ...
The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished ...
During the Second World War, to give himself every chance of winning the conflict, Adolf Hitler inst...
'Veterans', focuses on WW2 veterans, once fighters in the Red Army and now uprooted immigrants, figh...
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly...
It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the ...
From the search to find the appropriate landing site, the planning of the landing, its execution and...
Located nearly 80 kilometres north of Berlin, Germany, the former municipality of Ravensbrück was ho...
The gripping story of Britain's most extraordinary double agent; Eddie Chapman. Chapman duped the Ge...
A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
A propaganda film about the struggle of the Slovak army on the eastern front in 1941 and 1942.
A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).