June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union in order to be educated in German culture, by both state schools and German families…
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...
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowin...
In the three years leading up to the Olympics, the Nazi regime saw sport as an invaluable mobilisati...
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs ...
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...
On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest ...
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...
Existentialist drama based on the play of the same name by the Slovak writer Ivan Bukovčan. The stor...
Rotterdam, just after the First World War: Dirk and Louis grow up as inseparable brothers in a warm ...
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for h...
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape ...