Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything indicates that a bright future awaits them; but then, in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power and their lives are suddenly put in danger because of Erna's Jewish ancestry.
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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...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the histor...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
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An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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...
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.