Through firsthand accounts, it unveils harrowing wartime experiences—scarcity, displacement, bombings, killings, and torture—igniting empathy and understanding. Shedding light on enduring trauma, it emphasizes safeguarding children's well-being. More than a historical record, it's a call to action and beacon of hope for a war-free world.
Through firsthand accounts, it unveils harrowing wartime experiences—scarcity, displacement, bombings, killings, and torture—igniting empathy and understanding. Shedding light on enduring trauma, it emphasizes safeguarding children's well-being. More than a historical record, it's a call to action and beacon of hope for a war-free world.
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.