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

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

San Francisco Bay is home to various shark species. Alcatraz guards made sure the prisoners knew it,...

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

In Slovakia, they often and gladly honored those soldiers who refused to serve the fascist regime an...

In WWII, a squad of U.S. African-American soldiers are sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines t...

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked b...

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 ...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

The secret past of a World War II-era intelligence officer comes to light when his grandson, actor J...

In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent C...

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are w...

The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1...

A young man from the banks of the Ibar River goes to the revolutionary war. It turns out to be one o...

As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just...