September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relativel...

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

The film looks at the men, their living conditions, the food they eat and their bamboo shower. It sh...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
In 1944, at the tail end of the war—in which Finland aligned with Germany for a time in a bid to fig...

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

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinst...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

March 1945, on the frontlines of the Tatra Mountains, Romanian and German soldiers prepare for battl...