El 21 de marzo de 1945, la Royal Air Force británica se embarcó en una misión para bombardear la sede de la Gestapo en Copenhague. La redada tuvo consecuencias fatales ya que algunos de los bombarderos atacaron accidentalmente una escuela y más de 120 personas murieron, 86 de las cuales eran niños.
Las grandes bandas de jazz estadounidenses laten en los corazones de tres jóvenes amigos alemanes confrontados por los nazis.
Roma, 1943. Fulvio está cubierto de pelo de la cabeza a los pies; Matilde es tan eléctrica que enciende las bombillas metiéndoselas en la boca; Mario sufre de enanismo; Cencio escupe luciérnagas y cambia la forma de los insectos. E Israel es el dueño y director del circo que los acoge a todos, como una familia sui generis. Pero una explosión les roba su hogar-refugio y los arroja en medio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, siendo criaturas extraordinarias enfrentadas al horror.
Munich, 1943. Mientras Hitler está devastando Europa, un grupo de jóvenes, sobre todo estudiantes universitarios, recurren a la resistencia pasiva como única vía efectiva para combatir a los nazis y su inhumana máquina de guerra. Nace así "La rosa blanca", un movimiento de resistencia cuyo objetivo es la caída del Tercer Reich. Sophie Scholl es la única mujer del grupo. El 18 de febrero, cuando Sophie y su hermano Hans estaban distribuyendo panfletos en la Universidad de Múnich, fueron arrestados.
Inglaterra, Segunda Guerra Mundial. Quint Munroe, oficial de la RAF y nuevo líder de un escuadrón de aviones Mosquito, recibe el encargo de destruir una base secreta nazi situada en Francia mientras trata de superar la desaparición de un hermano de armas.
The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.
Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
Dos años después de la invasion de Noruega por los nazis, los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo pesquero esperan la llegada de armas para iniciar la revuelta contra los alemanes. Karen Stensgard, la hija del médico del pueblo, y Gunnar Brogge, un pescador que pensaba combatir a los nazis desde Inglaterra, serán los jefes de la sublevación.
Luego de sufrir un accidente de autobús, dos sobrevivientes despiertan en una ciudad abandonada. Sufriendo aún el shock del evento, se ven forzados a realizar por su cuenta una investigación entre la gente del lugar para descubrir qué es lo que les pasó.
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside following the country's surrender. The occupying Germans hunted these escapers who were helped and sheltered by the brave and kind Italian Contadini, farmers who put their families and homes at great risk by doing so. Made by a crew of students in Leeds, England with very limited resources and funds, it is based on the director's great-grandfather and his experiences as an escaped British POW in Italy during WWII.
A French documentary on how groups of youth in Paris generated a backlash against the NeoNazi skinhead subculture, and by doing so earned themselves the nickname Chasseurs de Skins or 'Skinhead Hunters'.
Story about famous ballet dancer Marija who was horrified by the terror of Ustasha regime, and joined the partisans.
Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a prominent member of the Nazi regime, head of the German Air Force, and a war criminal. The youngest, Albert Göring (1895-1966), opposed tyranny and was persecuted, but today he is still unjustly forgotten, although he saved many lives while his brother and his accomplices ravaged Europe.
An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director Joseph Santley's broad WWII comedy stars Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Jeffreys and Jerome Cowan.
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
An animated short documentary about Ernst Berliner, a Jewish track cycling manager from Cologne and his quest to launch a post-war criminal investigation into the death of his friend Albert Richter, a former amateur track cycling world champion who was killed by the Gestapo in 1940.