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.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

A cheerful road movie all about Belgian films at Cannes over the past 70 years. Filmmakers from the ...

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of René Clément's 1952 film "Fo...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's de...

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...

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

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...