After the war, the country is plagued by famine. The secretary party committee, Martin Kreka, leads a campaign to gather the grain that is sold in the black market.

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's...

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local ...

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies ...

In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their...

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...

Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1...

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, whe...

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as thei...

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the ...

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity tak...

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested wh...

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish gir...

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s...

Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in publ...