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 the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

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...

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

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in t...

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w...

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

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...