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.

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on ...
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries wer...

The code to unlocking this feature documentary is 1949, the year the director was born, and also the...

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid...

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family li...

Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid ov...

A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of ...

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during Wo...

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

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

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...