Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Cr...

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated whe...

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a...

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City poli...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the...

Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of res...

A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regime...

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of peo...

Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, is unexpectedly in the middle of the jungle as an inexperienced soldier. ...

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed ...

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping ...

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pa...

Questions about the identity of an amnesiac threaten his romance with the park ranger who rescued hi...

A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by co...

A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1...

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They...

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who wa...