French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

This documentary tells three stories about Jewish properties stored during the Second World War, the...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals th...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

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

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military info...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the Gen...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

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