Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to the NKVD, and a dance floor in the city garden, the persecution of religion and, of course, with love.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

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

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

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...

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

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschk...

Story of a simple-minded Finnish soldier set in the winter of 1943.

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...

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...