1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
The story of student love in the most difficult times, because even during the Protectorate, young p...

War takes its cruel toll, which everyone must pay. It hits a small Slovak village especially hard, w...

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the s...

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

Parer's War is the true story of World War II frontline cameraman, Damien Parer, whose work won Aust...

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked b...

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Ni...

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease...

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had...

Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants t...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...