The story behind the Hollywood film 'The Great Escape', examining the search for the Gestapo men who murdered 50 of the escapers.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

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.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

A historical drama focusing on Manuel L. Quezon years after the Philippine Revolution during the Ame...
Zakynthos is a Greek island on the Ionian Sea famed for its beauty. It also has the unique distincti...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...

The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.