Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

Explore the stories of women caught up in World War II, from the American Home Front to Auschwitz Co...

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...

Louis Theroux sets out on a personal quest to meet the ultimate pop idol - Michael Jackson - and exa...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

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

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

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...

Abel Ferrara explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and word...

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

Delve into the musical influences of iconic rockers Led Zeppelin, whose epic brand of arena rock gre...