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.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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...

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

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...

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...