As If They Were Angels

Night and Fog

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

1956

Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party

2020

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, pol

2014

The Battle of Shanghai

Informed by the conviction that film was a means to advocate patriotism, Lai established China Sun Motion Picture Company in the early 1920s. He teame

1937

Date With History: Hiroshima

A reconstruction using archive film of the bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a discussion of the main issues by Ludovic Kennedy and Group-Captain Ches

1965

Bergen-Belsen zum Beispiel

1985

Monte Cassino: The Soldiers' Story

The months-long battle of Monte Cassino, one of the bloodiest of the second World War, is related by the Germans and Allied troops who fought it. Men

2004

Return to Hardwick

Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the history of a disappearing World War II air base.

2019

Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

1947

Ils ont libéré Paris !

2014

Coming Out Under Fire

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual WWII

1994

The Men Who Brought the Dawn

1995

Sink the Bismarck!

Detailed and fascinating documentary telling the history of the famous German battleship of World War II. The urgent British hunt and the German ship'

1996

Will It Happen Again?

An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence.

1948

Lisa Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

To historians, physicist Lose Neither deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg, and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s, on the verge of World War

2013

Shooting War

A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by one of the more unsung heroes of World War II: the c

2000

Mad, une héroine de l'ombre

2018

Dirty Gold: The Disappearance of the Japanese war booty

From 1937 to 1948 gold, silver, platinum and diamonds were looted by the Imperial Japanese Army during its campaigns throughout Asia-a treasure trove

2008

4 and 20 Fit Girls

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

1940

Mrs. T. and Her Cabbage Patch

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".

1941