British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.
A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
Fredrik er ikke den modigste av menn, men nå står han plutselig overfor et stort ansvar og en enorm oppgave – å få hele den norske gullreserven vekk fra nazistene under invasjonen av Norge.
Kongens Nei handler om de tre dramatiske døgnene i april 1940, hvor den norske kongen får et ufattelig ultimatum av den tyske krigsmakten: Overgivelse eller døden.
Med tyske fly og soldater i hælene tvinges kongefamilien på flukt. De bestemmer seg for å skille lag uten å vite om de noensinne vil se hverandre igjen. Kronprinsesse Märtha reiser med barna til Sverige, mens kong Haakon og kronprins Olav blir igjen i Norge for å fortsette kampen.
Etter tre døgns desperat flukt, fatter kong Haakon sin endelige beslutning. Han nekter å kapitulere selv om dette kan koste både ham selv, hans familie, og mange uskyldige nordmenn livet.
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
Four circus freaks with superpowers find themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied Rome after their owner and father figure goes missing in the aftermath of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allies.
One of the five-part documentary series by Belarusian writer and director Viktor Dashuk, which recounts the horrors experienced by the Belarusian people during World War II, through firsthand accounts of survivors and newsreel footage.
A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child, explaining what he was fighting for in resisting the Nazi invasion of his homeland. A John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short.
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark s valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!