The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriag...
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of C...
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...
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
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...