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.

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in ...

To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Mila...

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depress...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational s...

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

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to figh...

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional p...

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...