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.

This feature documentary examines its own genre, which has often been called Canada's national art f...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights acti...

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate Africa...

In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication cod...

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could...

In January 1942, the order activating the 'US Air Forces in the British Isles' was announced. On 12t...

1943, the Japanese Army is falling back to the Pacific, leaving only collaborationist troops. Commis...

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The...

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís C...
An educational film that instructs people on how to survive atomic bombs and the radiation they emit...

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai....