Faced with the relentless and unstoppable advance of the Soviet Red Army, from the spring of 1944 until the capitulation of the Third Reich in May 1945, the Nazis evacuated the labor, concentration and extermination camps, factories of pain and death which, during years of nightmare, they had established in the occupied eastern territories. Forced to travel enormous distances, thousands of people died along the way from hunger, thirst and exhaustion.
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On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
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The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
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Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the histor...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
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An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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.
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1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...