Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their ...
At 13 years old and the eldest of three kids, Lane struggles to keep her family together as her icon...
Stella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz sing...
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive offic...
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka k...
In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the fro...
Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Cen...
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operat...
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...
A story of ambition, love, betrayal and greed.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders...
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...
A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschk...
Was have Vasily and Vasilisa seven children. They lived together, the village respected the working ...
The drama of the last days of the second world war through the eyes of children in rural areas.
Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery...
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme tol...
Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encou...