In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exemplary conditions" under which prisoners of war were kept, and to "soften up" the Australian public for the anticipated occupation of their country by Japanese forces. Prisoners of Propaganda tells why the film was made, and how it came to be forgotten.
The surprising story of how one of music's biggest icons helped to establish a USS Arizona memorial ...
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gesta...
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...
A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive offic...
In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a d...
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
The movie tells the story of Franz, a Waffen-SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman ...
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
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...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
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.
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...