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.

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

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...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

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...

A historical drama focusing on Manuel L. Quezon years after the Philippine Revolution during the Ame...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's de...

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 ...

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...