A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël Prazan's father, who escaped from Nazi-occupied France in 1942 thanks to the efforts of a female smuggler with mysterious motivations.

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

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

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

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...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

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

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

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

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...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants t...