Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a last burst of freedom, as an ultimate call to life. Nearly two hundred thousands children are thought to be born of the union of French women with German soldiers. Women weren't the Germans' only conquests; indeed, occupied Paris swarms with all kinds of homosexuals—from Genet to Cocteau—who treated with the occupier. The fate of those women who were shaved at the end of the war for fraternizing with Germans is the punishment of a France that lied down and slept with the enemy.

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WW...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in t...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...