Cologne is the largest city that the G.I.s will take during the war. Nazi propaganda has declared the city to be defended to the last cartridge. Witness the US troops first hand on their advance from the outskirts of the city to the banks of the Rhine and the fascinating research of the Cologne journalist and film historian Hermann Rheindorf.
The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
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.
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for 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...
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through ...
Images set to a tape recording that slain San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk made in November...
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service)...
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, t...
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotype...
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...