The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their ...

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive offic...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — ...

Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later o...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

A three-year old boy appears to be the only one who survived in a post-war village devastated by the...

In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. G...

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...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

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.