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.

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

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...

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the...

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

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

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

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...