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 captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

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

See Kenneth W. Rendell's collection of over 6,000 artifacts that range from the end of World War I a...

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

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

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could...
An educational film that instructs people on how to survive atomic bombs and the radiation they emit...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...

Guy Martin joins the two-year restoration of a Spitfire that was buried in a French beach for decade...

Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An Englis...

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

Wartime sweetheart Vera Lynn presents this documentary which sets archive footage and newsreel film ...

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

Foxes Ken and Chin become the proud parents of cubs, Koro and Kan, who enjoy a carefree life on the ...