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 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...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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...

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native German...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the ...

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...