En av tidenes mest hjertevarme familieklassikere. Bedårende Julie Andrews spiller nonnen som oppgir klosterlivet og blir guvernante for den egenrådige kaptein von Trapps 7 barn. I sin tilværelse som enkemann har det ikke vært rom for sang, latter og glede. Mon tro om ikke dette snart endrer seg? Fem Oscar fikk dette mesterverket,som står uten sidestykke i filmverdenen.
Black Book forteller historien om den unge kvinnen Rachel, som med nød og neppe overlevde nazistenes inntog i Holland, men måtte se sin familie bli drept. Fast bestemt på å komme morderne til livs, slutter hun seg til motstandsbevegelsen for å infiltrere det tyske hovedkvarteret i Holland. Med kvinnelist og sjarm lykkes det henne å komme helt inn på nazistenes toppledelse, og hun kan nå forberede det endelige oppgjøret med sin families bødler.
Under krigen måtte den jødiske piken Anne Frank og hennes familie gjemme seg unna tyskerne. På et hemmelig loft i et hus i Amsterdam levde de i flere år inntil de ble oppdaget, fengslet og sendt til gasskamrene i Tyskland. Anne Franks dagbok ble senere funnet på loftet, og den kunne fortelle om hvordan familien hadde hatt det mens de levde i skjul.
En undergrunnsgruppe i Roma mars 1944 sprengte en avdeling tyske SS på en festdag for fascismen. 32 blir drept. Tyskerne gir ordre om at 320 dødsdømte italienere og jøder skal henrettes. Den tyske obersten Kappler og fader Antonielli forsøker å avverge henrettelsene.
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.
Comprised entirely of re-mastered and colorised archive footage from World War II, much of it never before seen, Sacrifice recounts the story of D-Day through the testimonies of those who lived it. These important historical days are seen through the eyes of French civilians and members of the military fighting on both sides. The testimonies of famous individuals like Dwight D. Eisenhower and Erwin Rommel are intertwined with those of anonymous soldiers and citizens, such as film director Samuel Fuller and Eisenhower's chauffeur, Kay Summersby. From the preparations for D-Day all the way through to the liberation of Paris, the accounts of these men and women provide a moving and invaluable retelling of this pivotal time in history.
Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral's art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war years in France, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis in order to continue with his work, a decision that will come back to haunt him years later. In the meantime, Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral with whom she has a child named Fauve. As Mistral ages, he comes to terms with his selfish past and wartime betrayal through his art, leaving a beautiful legacy for his daughter, Fauve.
Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting rare books and living off his family fortune. Forever in the shadow of his brother Peter, and an eternal disappointment to his formidable mother Eve, Fleming dreams of becoming the ‘ultimate’ man – a hero, a lover, a brute and the one who always gets the girl. He is finally given some direction in his life when he’s recruited by the Director of Naval Intelligence to help in the effort against the Nazis. Suddenly, Fleming finds his chance to shine and prove his worth.
D-Day, June 6th, 1944. As the Allies storm the beaches of Normandy, Hitler orders the return of the Das Reich, the infamous Panzer elite division known for its mass murders in Ukraine and Belarus, based at that time in southwest of France. Its mission: to push the Allies back into the Atlantic and turn the tide of the conflict in favor of the Nazi Germany.
An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime, established in the south of France and headed by Marshal Pétain, and Nazi Germany.
