A II. világháború nyers, költőietlen hazafiasságnak, az ártatlanság elvesztésének, az intézményesített terrornak, az őrület túlharsoghatatlanságának a filmje, borzalmakban bővelkedő időtlen remekmű. A kis parasztlegény, Flera keres egy puskát és beáll a partizánok közé a II. világháború kellős közepén. A parancsnok a gazdasági szakaszhoz osztja be a legfiatalabbakat, de nem sejti, hogy hamarosan a legnagyobb szenvedéseknek lesznek kitéve az itt szolgálók...
1940 április 9-én a német hadigépezet Osló előtt áll. A norvég király ultimátumot kap: megadja magát, vagy meghal. Német katonák vadásznak a királyi családra, amely arra kényszerül, hogy elhagyja a fővárost. Miközben Haakon király és Olav koronaherceg egy Elverum melletti kis farmra menekül, találkoznak a német vezetéssel. Háromnapi kemény tárgyalás után Haakon király meghozza végső döntését. Visszautasítja a kapitulációt, még ha az a saját, a családja és sok norvég életébe is kerül.
A valós eseményeken alapuló könyv filmvászonra vitt eposza egy német katona, Clemens Forell történetét meséli el, aki a II. világháború után szökik meg egy szibériai munkatáborból. A tél csontig hatoló hidegében, át a sivár orosz vidékeken, életveszélyes találkozásokból menekülve, Forell elszántan tart hazafelé, a családjához. Lépésről lépésre, nap, nap után Perzsia - és az oly rég vágyott szabadság - felé igyekezve 14 ezer kilométer és három, teljes bizonytalanságban eltöltött év után célja már csak egy karnyújtásnyira van.
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
Laura lives in a Hotel in Britanny and meets there an old man. Laura looks like his wife Lise, who's killed by the Gestapo...
August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture over the barbarism of war.
The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Four Spanish Blue Division soldiers captured after the German invasion of Soviet territory face a choice in forced labor camps: renounce their Spanish nationality for better conditions. While two accept, Captain Adrados leads a group resisting, labeling those who comply as traitors, showcasing a struggle for loyalty to Franco's values.
In the wake of World War II, most Germans have been raised with the mistaken belief that the Holocaust had been planned and executed by just a tiny minority of Nazis, namely, the Gestapo and the SS. The sad truth, however, is that Hitler's philosophy of ethnic cleansing, as the Fuhrer so brazenly espoused in his frightening manifesto, "Mein Kampf," had been enthusiastically embraced not only by the entire military but also by most of the civilian population. The long-suppressed proof of their widespread collaboration and participation was unveiled in The Wehrmacht Exhibition, a damning collection of photographs and film footage that toured Deutschland between 1999 and 2004. The show shook the country to its core because it forced folks to face up to the fact that it took much more than a madman and his henchmen to wipe out six million.
