Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches that they quickly undercut. It's not white cliffs and rolling hills they want to tell us about. It's present-day Dover - remaking itself in the crisp freshness of a postwar spring.
The cause of the traffic accident should not be sought at the time of the accident itself, but long ...
A movie about the education for nurse told from Bente's perspective. She starts at the preschool at ...

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 A...

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to ...

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her...

In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust, this power...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alf...

Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even...

When Italy capitulated 1943 and joined the allied forces, some soldiers from the German Wehrmacht al...

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...

Between 1944 and 1953, 170,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians put up fierce resistance to the ...

October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic b...