A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg dur...
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...
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.
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
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 ...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
During WWII two sisters have stolen some emeralds from the lesbian Nazi SS officer (Rena Riffel) and...
Besides martial arts, Bruce Lee's contribution to Chinese society was instilling a strong sense of n...
When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British com...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...