Films: Second World War
The Passage is a 1979 British action-war film, based upon the 1976 novel Perilous Passage by Bruce Nicolaysen, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. During the Nazi...
Based on the life of pianist Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000), this internationally acclaimed, award-winning film presents a devastating portrait of a Jewish man from Warsaw surviving the Holocaust...
Based on J. P. Gallagher's book The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican initially published in 1967, The Scarlet and the Black tells the story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898-...
In this documentary, historian Anna Reid discusses the first few months of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II. Interviews, photographs, and new documentary evidence based on the files of...
The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American war film directed by William Wellman. The story is a tribute to the American...
Highly acclaimed and considered one of the best contemporary war films, The Thin Red Line is based on a 1962 novel by James Jones with the same title. The film, directed by Terrence...
Hailed as one of the best films of all time, The Third Man explores post-World War II Vienna in a stylish film-noir style. The film stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp...
The Train is an American French war film, based on the 1961 book, Le front de l'art, by Rose Valland, the art historian at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, who documented...
In this PBS documentary series, the directors aspired to honor the experiences of those who lived through the Second World War by providing the opportunity for them to bear witness to their own...