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.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa ow...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

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.

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for he...

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-alterin...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where the...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...