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.

On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new c...

Discovering Paris under the German occupation through the story of an SS soldier and more generally ...

Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
On September 10, 1898, Sisi, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was stabbed to death with ...

During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is...

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle ...
On the eve of WWI, Russian landowner’s son Nicholas Tarabas, a Catholic sympathizer turned assassin ...

Instead of running away from enemy raid, a female partisan-doctor decides to stay and help one of th...

The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Bernard Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architec...

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initial...

An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back ...

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of go...

A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, an...

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her politic...

David Austin, a Scottish scholar of the Orient, befriends Awang Dunzhu on the bustling streets of Ka...

An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to sa...

Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appea...

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven...

A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula f...

Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned t...