To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.

On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new c...

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

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

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

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 ...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

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

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...

Starting with a Nazi plan to steal the Rimet Trophy from Italy during World War II, the story unfold...

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WW...

1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

This video invites you inside the U-505 submarine, the actual craft that stalked the waters of the A...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

After WWII had ended, it was realized by the American Allies that there were children whom Hitler tr...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...