In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family...

In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent C...

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, ...

Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of V...

The end of World War II brings Europe a new political system, reshapes national and personal identit...

A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay...

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and t...

Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 194...

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on ...

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution b...

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen...

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

In the final days of the battle of Manila during World War II, fanatical Japanese naval forces barri...

Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen a...

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...

During 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authori...

A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed sta...

Edo, Japan. Calligraphists are not mere writers, they can bring drawings to life and utilize kanji. ...

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit ...