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.

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

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns o...

When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an ap...

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

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

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

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup,...

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...

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...

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

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...
A family suffers greatly during the First World War.

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. ...

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

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...