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.

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

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape ...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

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

The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Jesus 'Chuy' Aceves and a dozen living members of his extended family suffer from the very rare cond...

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...

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WW...

1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...