Pulitzer Prize -- winning journalist John Hersey caused a sensation when he published "Hiroshima", the first account for American readers of the horror experienced by victims of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb attack. "Hiroshima" stunned readers with its descriptions of the terrible aftermath of the bombing, yet Hersey never spoke about his experience in Hiroshima.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
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 story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
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...
When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put i...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Sake is a traditional alcoholic beverage from Japan and is otherwise known as rice wine. Women were ...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
1936, in the aftermath of the Ethiopian occupation by Fascist Italy, under the incredulous gaze of t...
When Canada entered World War II, the National Film Board suddenly had an urgent new mission—and hun...
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a d...
In the darkest days of the Second World War, Yulia and Hugo, a Jewish mother and son, escape from a ...