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.

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...

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

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

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recoun...

Lester Alfonso travels to the Philippines to find out the truth about this real grandfather...the in...

Martha Gellhorn, Ruth Cowan, Dickey Chappelle: Three tenacious journalists who forged legendary repu...

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.

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

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

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
This documentary examines three major christian theologians in nazi germany.

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory...