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.
In a career spanning more than half a century, Bernard Blier has shot more than 180 films. He alone ...
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...
The story of the abandoned production of 'Day of the Champion', a movie about Formula 1 which was se...
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by ...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...
In the small town of Rechnitz a terrible crime against humanity was performed during the holocaust. ...
Get the scoop on the legendary actor-director-New Yorker John Cassavetes straight from the mouth of ...
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...
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...
In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against ...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...