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.
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A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
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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 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of F...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...
A group of Russian partisans hiding within a remote forest attempt to destroy a nearby German airfie...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
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This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the ...
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentar...
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black ...