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 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.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

In Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commandoes are sent to kidnap an important Ger...

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...

During World War II, Helmut Dantine specialized in playing villainous Nazis in Hollywood melodramas....

August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat,...

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take...

In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as th...