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.

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politica...

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It...

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their ...

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive offic...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. G...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...