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 the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a G...

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

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

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...