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.

As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied P...

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...

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

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

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

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive for...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...