A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

Two teenage outcasts, who resent their schoolmates and teachers, resolve to spread panic in school t...
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory sea...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

One day. One night. A group of teenagers struggles to find their way in a world that offers them few...

When the First World War breaks out in 1914, Josef Schwejk, a naive dog dealer in Prague, joins the ...

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a ...

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

A short musical film that imagines the experience of a teacher and students who witnessed the great ...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during t...

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding...

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath...

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour str...

As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its studen...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...