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.

A film that relates the trial in Bordeaux in January 1953 of some of the participants in the Oradour...

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

THE ARYANS is Mo Asumang's personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German...

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

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...

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

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of peo...

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hosp...

He built the mightiest army in history and selected its leaders. Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton al...

Rotterdam, just after the First World War: Dirk and Louis grow up as inseparable brothers in a warm ...

World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of Fra...

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

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family...