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 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...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

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

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Rooseve...

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...

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

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

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...

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...