On the 9th of April 1940, the crew of a Danish merchant ship receives the news of Germany's invasion of Denmark. Instead of returning home, they vote in favor of setting course for England. The crew will undergo much hardship over the next five years ...

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...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk,...

A thirty-minute High Definition documentary which revisits that winter of 1779-80 when Washington’s ...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...

Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day,...

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to pow...

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational s...
Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...

In WWII's final years, a soldier in the German army, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch resistance ...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

A story about a fictional South African police base on the border between Angola and the former Sout...