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 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of ...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

The Manhattan Project was an enormous undertaking that required the efforts of many of the world's m...

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

The film looks at the men, their living conditions, the food they eat and their bamboo shower. It sh...

Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers k...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
In 1944, at the tail end of the war—in which Finland aligned with Germany for a time in a bid to fig...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

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

March 1945, on the frontlines of the Tatra Mountains, Romanian and German soldiers prepare for battl...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a G...

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assign...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...