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.

As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied P...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

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...

Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants ...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...
Krause and the Greyhound crew travel from the beaches of Normandy to the ocean in the Pacific as the...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

The war will also affect children's games. The children hide a French boy who has managed to escape ...

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters...

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...