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.

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead h...

Karlag, short for Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, was one of the largest labor camps within the Sov...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

Two German soldiers has taken a Norwegian soldier as prisoner, during one of the cold Scandianvian w...

Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.

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An elite group of five mercenaries, each with highly specialised skills, who are hired to take out a...

When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard ...
The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely tee...

The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the de...

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patro...

We've all heard of the atomic bomb, but in the late 1950s, an idea was conceived of a bomb which wou...

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The ...

The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when para...

During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and bec...

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of go...

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Kat...

The Allied D-Day invasion is a success, and German forces begin leave Normandy. After an ambush take...

During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It ...

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the sold...