The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...
Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants t...
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
The fourth film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sens...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is br...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodo...
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the M...
In the darkest days of World War II, St. Peter's was shrouded in the shadow of the swastika. But eve...
During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on Germ...