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.

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppe...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girl...

Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows ...

During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on Germ...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives whe...
Sascha is on her way to Italy with her camper to marry Carlo. On the way she meets Alex. The unequal...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

Adela is a single mother, hardworking and humble. While she works, her mother takes care of her son....

In the spring of 1944, in the Woëvre forest of Lorraine, a group of young maquisards takes in four G...

When pretty dress-maker Andy joins a motley crew of brides-to-be for a grueling bridal boot camp, wh...

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British No...

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man ...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the mileston...

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who ...

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from...