Ulla and Gunnar meet and fall in love in Stockholm in the late 1930s. Early in their relationship Ulla discovers that she is pregnant but she decides to get an abortion because she doesn't want to pressure Gunnar into marrying her. The outbreak of the war puts a strain on their relationship when Gunnar gets called up for military service.

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It...

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their ...

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive offic...

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

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

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...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

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

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled ex...

An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small ...

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