He went off to war an unknown soldier and returned a beloved national hero. Often dismissed as a "do-nothing" president and a good-natured bumbler, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- the last American president to be born in the 19th century -- was actually a skillful politician, a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated presidents. Two-part documentary from American Experience.

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A film about a district in Buda, which to this day cannot face the inconceivably cruel crimes commit...

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Women soldiers of the Volunteer Army battle the Japanese in Northeast China in 1936.

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Short documentary about the Italian town of Salò during World War 2 and what it endured.

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When Isa provokes the Nazis with a satirical song at her graduation party, she is denied her degree ...

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the stor...

Berlin, 1943, during World War II. Martha Liebermann, an elderly upper-class Jewish woman, faces the...

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...

This joint Korean-Japanese production follows a Korean woman, Lee Ha-jong, as she searches for her f...

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live wit...

Father Edward J. Flanagan is a familiar name to many Americans, often for the Oscar-winning 1938 fil...