A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

24-year-old Kjell feels trapped in his little village. One day he meets a mysterious young man named...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon t...

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll i...

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the S...

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of...

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life ra...

Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indian...

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his fr...

After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, w...
This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-y...

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...
A family suffers greatly during the First World War.
In 1885, German Zoo owner Carl Hagenbeck hired nine Aboriginal men from Bella Coola to perform their...

Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.

Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to H...

Middle-aged cinephile and film projectionist Pera still lives with his mother - and best friend - Ma...