Canada: A People's History - Episode 14: 1940 to 1946 CE. Canada comes of age in the anguish of World War II, with soldiers on the beaches at Dieppe and women in the industrial work force back home. The country's military role, and the domestic, social and political consequences of the war are traced through poignant stories of Canadians on both sides of the Atlantic. The horrific global conflict steals the innocence of a generation... but brings hope for a new future.
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role ...
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...
On the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of ships reached the French coast of Normandy as part of a...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
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...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daught...
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who...
In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS....
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
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...