Čo keby Spojenci prehrali druhú svetovú vojnu? Alternatívna história v podaní Philipa K. Dicka, ktorý zobrazil Spojené štáty rozdelené pod nadvládou Japonska a Nemecka. Píše sa rok 1962 a medzi súčasnými vládami panujú nezhody. Hrozí, že vypukne ďalšia vojna, a navyše je na spadnutie revolúcie vďaka niekoľkým odvážnym aktivistom.
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.
V roku 1961 sa Susan, Millie, Lucy a Jean vrátili do pokojného povojnového života. Odložili bokom úlohy, ktoré zohrali pri víťazstve Spojencov v druhej svetovej vojne. Ich brilantná práca v prísne tajnej centrále Bletchley Park pomohla rozlúštiť kódy používané nemeckou armádou, získať dôležité informácie a skrátiť vojnu. Susan sa dozvie o sérii nevyriešených vrážd v Londýne, čo v nej prebudí starého bletchleyského ducha. Pomocou ručne písaných číselných tabuliek, dátumov, časov a vlnoviek spájajúcich body na nástennej mape Susan odhalí vzorec vražedného správania, ktorý si nikto iný nevšimol. Polícia však o jej minulosti nevie a jej teórie úplne zavrhne. Vďaka tomu si uvedomí, že jediný spôsob, ako vyriešiť vraždy, je vyhľadať pomoc u svojich priateľov. Tieto štyri zdanlivo obyčajné ženy s neobyčajným talentom na riešenie šifier a obrovskou inteligenciou sa potom stanú nečakanými vyšetrovateľkami vrážd.
Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros. Television for ABC. The show was set in the fictional city of River Run, Ohio in 1945, 1946, and 1947. The show's theme song, "Accentuate the Positive", was written by Johnny Mercer and performed by Jack Sheldon.
Forty-two episodes were broadcast in the United States over two seasons from 1991 to 1993. TV Guide, Abigail Van Buren, and fans showed determination in getting ABC to continue the show for a third season before it was cancelled.
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Viceroy of India shortly after the Second World War in the days leading up to Indian independence.
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
An excellent narration of oil industry since early days to 20th century and up to today. How oil changed the world and shaped our modern world today.
Spin-off minisérie The Bletchley Circle. Príbeh sa odohráva v polovici 50. rokov 20. storočia a sleduje osudy štyroch výnimočných žien, ktorým nechýba inteligencia, dych vyrážajúci talent vidieť vzory a nachádzať stopy. Hrdinky sa rozhodnú využiť svoje schopnosti na vyriešenie vrážd, ktoré polícia prehliada. Dostávajú sa do fascinujúcich zákutí mesta, vytvárajú si silné vzťahy a objavujú vlastnú silu a potenciál. Tieto ženy dosiahnu spravodlivosť nielen pre obete, ale aj pre seba.
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis is forced to bury his feelings.
In the wake of World War II, 11 Allied judges are tasked with weighing the fates of Japanese war criminals in a tense international trial.
In a small area of West Germany, the American military presence opened up a new world in the early 1950s and paved the way for individual freedom, freedom of movement and capitalism in Germany. In this time of upheaval, two friends are looking for their place and have to fight time and again with the 'old order', the conservative forces from politics, church and society. Confronted with the seductions of the new world, the two dissimilar women make an opposing development that puts their intimate friendship to a severe test ...
Just after the second world war, an English girl from a sheltered background, Jennifer Morton, falls in love with Czech migrant Carl Zlinter. But Carl is not all that he seems and even Jennifer is not privy to his dark secret.