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.
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
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...
About the events of the final stage of the Second World War — the defeat by Soviet and Mongolian tro...
"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of ...
During WWII two sisters have stolen some emeralds from the lesbian Nazi SS officer (Rena Riffel) and...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged ...
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...