In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

Rio Branco, Acre, an Amazon city near the border with Peru and Bolivia, has been suffering the viole...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control...

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...

During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to as...

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Cha...