Naval historians discuss in detail the events leading up to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

Lord Baden-Powell's 1908 handbook Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential and best-selling ...

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...

Though Henry Kissinger is often giving short statements to the media, he refuses detailed interviews...

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

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

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...

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and t...

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms...

An intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-c...

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign...