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.

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...

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

In Third Reich, the abuse of drugs made commanders and soldiers feel invincible. The Führer himself ...

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

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

This is the untold story of a Nazi vision, that went far beyond the military conquest of European co...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...

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

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

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...

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

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of ...