September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

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

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass...

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an appar...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bo...

Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity...

Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the ...

A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must e...

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries wer...

The code to unlocking this feature documentary is 1949, the year the director was born, and also the...

A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatris...

The development of professional soccer worldwide owes a great debt to the soccer – or "football" – t...

The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.