"Letters from Europe" brings to light the words of men and women who gave their lives resisting the Nazi and fascist conquest from 1939 to '45 across the European continent. The moving goodbyes penned by a few of those sentenced to death are sometimes true spiritual testaments that explore the meaning of civic responsibility, human existence, fraternity, and life and death. Their words, which the film mingles with footage of the present day, can perhaps restore meaning to a humanist ideal and to the ever-changing idea of a united Europe.
Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a p...
Karlag, short for Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, was one of the largest labor camps within the Sov...
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
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...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
The secret past of a World War II-era intelligence officer comes to light when his grandson, actor J...
The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...
The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the Frenc...
Documentary tells the story of the Chilean football club Colo-Colo, exploring its profound impact on...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in ...
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condole...
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...
This documentary about WW II, composed of clandestine Allied film takes and German Wochenschaubilder...