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.

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

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...

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

The Pearl Harbor Attack by Japan in 1941 and the nuclear bomb explosion in 1945 together led to the ...

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.

An Allied medic, rumored to be Jesus Christ, gets into a philosophical debate with a Catholic-Nazi i...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting t...

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...

In the Pacific, 1944, a Japanese soldier and a British prisoner of war are stranded on a deserted is...

Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendli...

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...