The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.
With precisely articulated turns of phrase, Sibylle Berg - celebrated novelist, playwright and colum...
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned...
A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Camp...
A film that relates the trial in Bordeaux in January 1953 of some of the participants in the Oradour...
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys wes...
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...
A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The ...
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced u...
It explores Rita Lee's personal life and her creative process, revealing her musical talent and her ...
The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American...
A documentary on the life of Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man...
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and ...
This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China....
Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, a filmmaker meditates on the death of his father.
Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life c...
The film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma. Bo...
Thomas Schütte's work is always about people. His works have gravity and lightness, but they also sh...
Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the stor...