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.

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

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

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

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mans...

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

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

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

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

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story inv...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his elev...

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