As the Nazi war machine tore through Europe, they plundered museums in search of holy relics that would grant them untold power and prestige; experts investigate how close Hitler was to discovering the Holy Grail and its promise of eternal life.

"Royals at War" examines the strategies used by the royal families of Europe during World War II in the face of increasingly powerful nationalist parties. Connected by family ties, the families witnessed the rise of power of Fascism and Nazism and found themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, at the centre of Hitler's political scheming. The two episodes will recount the various families' ambiguous and difficult dealings with these untrustworthy powers. After long procrastination, when war finally broke out, each royal family had to make a crucial decision for their country: whether to resist or collaborate.

During World War II, Russian writers gathered around the famous authors and war correspondents Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman documented the destruction of the Jews in the Soviet territories conquered by the Nazis, in an unpub...

An attorney in Washington D.C. battles against cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11.

After unearthing a tomb that had been untouched for 4,400 years, Egyptian archaeologists attempt to decipher the history of the astonishing find.

Algiers, 1956. Fernand Iveton is arrested in his factory, accused of having planted a bomb. His wife Hélène is now married to a "traitor", but she refuses to abandon Fernand to his fate.

Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.

A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.

Denmark, April 9th, 1940. Danish industrialist (portrayed by Jesper Christensen of James Bond fame) , cooperates and profits from the German occupation of Denmark. While his family finds themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

When a woman's husband, daughter, land and innocence are ripped from her, she embarks on a brutal journey of retribution and revenge.

1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.

The remarkable story of the Mount St. Helen's volcanic eruption of 1980 told by first hand witnesses who survived and using rare remastered archive material.

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what h

The movie centres on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.