During WWII most zoo animals that could pose a danger to the public were slaughtered. Only two elephants survived the war, and trains were arranged to bring children from all over the country to see them.

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

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

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

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...

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

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

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

Foxes Ken and Chin become the proud parents of cubs, Koro and Kan, who enjoy a carefree life on the ...

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Par...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...