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”.
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cro...
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operat...
Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verd...
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
A film in three parts after Oskar Schlemmer's Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet).
Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, the Allies can already be heard in Nesselbühl in Swabia w...
The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-...
Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intellige...
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newbo...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
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.
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...