Tag: 1940s

Kabei: Our Mother

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the...

Female Agents

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters...

In Tranzit

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in...

All Things Fair

Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He...

Murder in the First

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an...

Devil in a Blue Dress

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed...

Cruel Train

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his...

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer...

The Neon Bible

During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in...

Učitel tance

Evita

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte,...

The Grass Harp

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age...

Eine kleine Jazzmusik

The Counterfeiters

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced...

Katyn

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World...

The Island on Bird Street

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides...

Paradise Road

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates...

Lucie Aubrac

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this...

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi...

Exodus 1947

Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by...

Flags of Our Fathers

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising...

Letters from Iwo Jima

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the...

Black Book

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish...

O Jerusalem

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and...