In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.

Explore the stories of women caught up in World War II, from the American Home Front to Auschwitz Co...

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...

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...

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...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

Hyo-jeong, a 69-year-old woman, is raped—but few people, including the police, are willing to believ...

A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts a...

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

Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughte...
An ode to musicals past. Handsome men spend their time in a beautiful manor.

The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after hi...

Frivolous girl falls in love with a young construction worker. He trusts her and decides to include ...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

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...