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 this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World ...

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s ...

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regime...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must e...

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...

Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives fore...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during ...

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...

Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants t...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...