In a powerful household marked by scandal and hidden tensions, one family becomes entangled in the local resistance during the anti-Japanese war—until a child’s tragic discovery exposes a shocking spy conspiracy.
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In a powerful household marked by scandal and hidden tensions, one family becomes entangled in the local resistance during the anti-Japanese war—until a child’s tragic discovery exposes a shocking spy conspiracy.
During the war against Japan, a Communist agent infiltrates Japanese spies to protect national treasures hidden in Mount Emei, facing dangerous missions and personal sacrifices, as love and tragedy unfold amid the fight to safeguard China’s heritage.
Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her friend Loveday invites her to Gut Nancherrow one day, it is love at first sight for Judith. The elegant lady of the house Diana, her husband Colonel Cary-Lewis and Loveday's siblings Edward and Athena immediately fall in love with her and treat her like family. But the outbreak of the Second World War put an end to the idyll on Nancherrow overnight. A long, thorny road lies ahead of Judith until she finally finds happiness in a family of her own...
Day by day chronicle of World War Two.
How, from the 1920s to the present day, financial power has gradually strengthened a hidden alliance with criminal organizations around the world.
328 / 5 000 The Kremlin's strategy consists of infiltrating places of power throughout Europe and securing the services of more or less lucid personalities, more or less aware of what is going on.
The series focuses on the Croatian struggle for independence, dating as far back as 1895.
Empire is a unique programme that reports on and debates global powers on behalf of an international citizen. It does so in a way whereby it questions those geopolitical, geoeconomic, corporate, and other forms of power that influence citizens across borders. Many of those are not held accountable by any one government or any one nation, and so looking at the world as the global village it has become - with its integrated societies - we try to answer the questions on the minds of many of our viewers: why and how does global power act, react? And how does it throw its weight around?
Mao Anying, the son of Mao Zedong, focuses on his deep family ties, devotion to China’s liberation, and his noble internationalist spirit while honoring the ideals of early Communist revolutionaries.
When the German invaders come to the Don, the hero of the First World War, Semyon Neupokoev, gathers the Cossack hundred and stands up for the defense of his native land. The experience of fighting the Germans in 1914-1918, for which the fearless and savvy warrior was nicknamed the Charmed One, helps his hundred defeat German units in 1942, although the Germans now have tanks and cannons, and the Cossack still has the same saber, horse, and steppe all around. To break the resistance of the Conspirator and his loyal fighters, the enemy throws superior forces and equipment, led by an experienced commander, Colonel Ritter, who has had his own scores with Neupokoev since the First World War.
Follow Zelensky’s journey from a young actor and entertainer to one of the most recognisable leaders on the planet, presiding over a nation at war with Putin’s Russia.
It tells the story of the Egyptian national security apparatus's struggle against hidden forces and complex threats affecting the stability of the nation, and gradually reveals networks and alliances that require decisive battles and smart fights in a tense, thrilling, and suspenseful narrative.
Chen Chunxue is a skilled assassin seeking revenge for her father's death. After two high-profile killings, she becomes the target of a Japanese investigation and joins a special underground female action team.
An adaptation of Eliza Orzeszkowa’s novel. Set in 1886 in Lithuania, the story centers on the conflict between the Bohatyrowicz family and the Korczyn estate. Against a backdrop of social and familial tensions unfolds the love story of Justyna Orzelska (Iwona Katarzyna Pawlak), niece of Benedykt Korczyński, and Jan Bohatyrowicz (Adam Marjański). Will their love prove strong enough to overcome the deep mental divide separating the world of the Bohatyrowiczs from that of the Korczyńskis?
During the 1970s the Middle East was a battleground for the Cold War; liberal pro-Western forces battled with pro-Soviet Arab Nationalists and Baathists. But in 1979 a series of events – the Iranian Revolution, Egypt’s peace with Israel, the Mecca Mosque Siege, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan – contributed to a radical change in the mind-set of the region and its leaders. It was the start of the meteoric rise of radical Islam.
6 June 1944. A titanic fleet launched an assault on the beaches of Normandy. Objective: to liberate Europe from Hitler's yoke. Drawing on the lessons learned from the Dieppe raid in August 1942, the mission was a spectacular success.
Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.
During the occupation in 1944, filmmaker Otto Baumann is murdered. Detective Helge Nielsen stubbornly investigates the case — even as he's hunted by the Germans.
The inside story of how, since Donald Trump first took office, America and China have become locked in a battle for global power and influence.
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
"Operation Valkyrie" was the name of an official alarm plan during the Second World War. With the help of this plan, the conspirators around Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg wanted to bring about the overthrow of Germany on July 20, 1944. The events are well known: Stauffenberg's assassination attempt failed, Adolf Hitler remained alive. In addition to the purely scenic reconstruction, this two-part, documentary-style film consists of interspersed interviews and reports with eyewitnesses and survivors who were directly involved. Everything that is available in the way of authentic testimony about July 20, 1944 is examined and documented with the highest degree of realism.
A unique account of Tony Blair’s ten years as Prime Minister.
Two mosquitoes talk about their cosmic horror, a human...
A raw and unflinching Arab drama depicting life under ISIS through the eyes of women — a Yazidi woman taken as a slave, an undercover journalist infiltrating the group, a mother radicalised into training her child as a sniper. One of the boldest and most controversial productions in Arab television history, praised for its courage in confronting extremism head-on.
February 1916. World War I has been raging for two years and has killed over three million people, neither side gaining the upper hand. The Germans mobilize more artillery and men in Verdun than in any other offensive -- for three hundred days -- but the French hold out. Constructed from over five hundred hours of restored, colorized archival footage.
A story about German resistance group fighting SS units during WWII.
At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.
Newly elected president of one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world, Suzanne Fontana is put to the test when a young delegate and a dozen employees of the organisation are kidnapped in Yemen.
Universal Century 0096. Several months have passed since the incident surrounding Laplace's box also known as the Universal Century Charter. The Earth Federation Forces dispatches a group of investigators to the severed Axis which is drifting outside the Earth Sphere. Two civilians participate as members of the research group: Arlette Almage and Danton Hyleg. Both have pasts with government service to the Principality of Zeon and Neo Zeon as an engineer and test pilot. Having infiltrated Axis, the investigators come under attack inside a base where no one should be. Arlette and Dalton are confronted with an incident they never imagined.
Year 1944. According to information received from a recruited German agent, the Nazis are planning a major act of sabotage in one of the Arctic ports through which the Soviet Union is supplied with food, goods and material of vital importance from the Allies under the Lend-Lease programme. Heroes Yelena Soley and Sergey Saburov, from the "The Black Sea" series, will have to disrupt the enemy operation and save the port from impending disaster
Spywatch is a story produced by the BBC as part of the Look and Read series. It originally aired from January to March 1996. Its main educational focus was World War II.
What would it be like to experience the Second World War from the German point of view? Now, through this rare collection, you'll witness WWII through the perspective of the Third Reich, from front line soldiers to Hitler's high command.
L'État de Grace was a French television show that featured France's first female president.
A five-part documentary series that examines in-depth the influence of espionage agencies on governments and societies, both domestically and abroad.