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.

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

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be...

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World ...

1936. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts betwee...

In January 1942, the order activating the 'US Air Forces in the British Isles' was announced. On 12t...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...

Documentary on the main principles of Sun Tsu "Art of War" illustrated with examples from the second...

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...

Karlag, short for Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, was one of the largest labor camps within the Sov...

The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Barde...

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after h...

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of D...

A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise...

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate Africa...