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.
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A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find...
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
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A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
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In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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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.
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As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
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Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...