The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration ca...
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbau...
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...
On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in his...
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 19...
The Unknown Woman is a documentary film scripted and directed by Elina Kivihalme. It depicts the rea...
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...
For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its ...
This is a story of faith, renewal and redemption. Joe Engel, with an unwavering will to live, overca...
A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The ...
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...
Rotterdam, just after the First World War: Dirk and Louis grow up as inseparable brothers in a warm ...
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape ...
Spitfires were the nemesis of the Luftwaffe and the instrument which halted Hitler’s plans for invas...
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...
Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to ...
In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a ...