A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on ...

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his s...

Edwina Currie, Matthew Parris and Ian Hislop lead a cast of politicians and journalists sharing pers...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease...

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

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

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

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...