Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, impri...

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of ...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
Ann Miller hosts this documentary short on the making of the MGM-Cole Porter hot musical "Kiss Me Ka...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of t...

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

An excerpt about the troubled, passionate and intriguing relationship of an actor with his own life.

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into ...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military info...

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...