The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which, just after the Second World War, was established in Japan as a special jurisdiction in 1946 (it was closed in 1948) to judge the war crimes of the Japanese leaders; and how and why officials in Washington prevented Emperor Hirohito to be seen sat on the bench.

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores o...

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner...

A nine-hour program that shows a man walking backwards through Tokyo – and nothing else – it appears...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...

A thought-provoking documentary on the current and historical causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conf...

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role ...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

How could a German Wehrmacht soldier become a celebrated soccer idol of the Britons in the post-war ...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

A film about Dresden - before, during, and after the war.

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...