Following in the footsteps of two women in search of their origins, this documentary lifts the veil on a little-known page of the post-war era: the adoption, as part of a cross-border program, of thousands of children born during the French occupation of Germany.
Through divorce, adoption and second marriages, none of the children in the Van Wijk family have the...

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find the...

Julia always said that her upbringing as a biological child in a foster family was a happy time. But...

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Th...

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cro...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans...
Austria in the mid-1950s. Seamstress Elfi Redlich and her two children are about to emigrate to Amer...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from th...

At age 25, Olivier Rousteing was named the creative director of the French luxury fashion house, Bal...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...