A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by ...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon t...

After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon ...

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated wi...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depress...