The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was still thrilling in every way. This program sheds new light on the audacious escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp during World War II.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...
Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prison...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
'Veterans', focuses on WW2 veterans, once fighters in the Red Army and now uprooted immigrants, figh...
During the Second World War, to give himself every chance of winning the conflict, Adolf Hitler inst...