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 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

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...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

In 1933 Oregon, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. Warden Clanc...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

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

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

During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to as...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

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

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...