Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

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...

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...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

On an ordinary Moscow street, a family lives together in an unremarkable house: a mother and four ch...

Eleven years ago, General Prozorov, having received an appointment, moved his family from Moscow to ...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

Victoria Stellmann, head of a traditional cruise shipping company, leads a happy but routine family ...

The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic an...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...