James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed the invasion. Challenging some of the many myths that have grown up around this vital campaign, Holland argues that we have become too comfortable in our understanding of events, developing shorthand to tell this famous story that does great injustice to those that saw action in France across the summer of 1944.
The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-...
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by ...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...
Nebi Surreli lives in poverty along with his mother. Doing small jobs to earn a living, he also help...
In Fascist Albania 1942, Albanian partisans will do all they can to remove the Italian fascists from...
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxf...
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...
Live from Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Huw Edwards introduces coverage of the National Commemorati...
In the small town of Rechnitz a terrible crime against humanity was performed during the holocaust. ...
Following the murder of Andre Toulon by Nazi assassins during the height of World War II, a young Da...
Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to p...
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.