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During the Second World War, the notorious Amsterdam criminal Dries Riphagen worked fanatically with the Nazis. Riphagen becomes immeasurably rich by tracking down, extorting and betraying Jewish people in hiding, and feels untouchable in the process. But when he betrays an important resistance group, the young police officer and resistance fighter Jan van Liempd opens the hunt for him.
This classic series follows the events that sparked the greatest conflict of the century, capturing the drama, the excitement and the ideological juxtapositions of these crucial years. Former CBS News correspondent and commentator Eric Sevareid, one of the world's most respected figures in journalism, presents this extraordinary series featuring stunning original newsreels, soundtracks, and rare archival footage.
The series takes place between the era of Jahiliyya and the beginning of the Umayyad caliphate, and presents the history of the Arab sword by documenting the most important stations that Arabs went through throughout the ages.
The play tells the story of three different life experience in a troubled era. Different personalities in a turbulent fate of ups and downs and good and bad fighting against the Japanese.
In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, political tensions and personal dramas unfold, culminating in a historic arrival.
In 1941. Feng Jiusi, the young police officer working within the British Concession, witnessed the death of a member of the underground Chinese Communist Party and was unfortunately marked as a suspect by the CCP. Meanwhile, the Japanese were amid clearing the anti-Japanese factions in Tianjin as they prepared to take over the British-French concession. As an undercover CCP member in the police force, Feng Jiusi must prove his loyalty to the CCP as he works to uncover the plot of the Japanese.
A shocking scandal shakes the nation's top brass, sparking a ruthless power struggle between its president and his brother in uniform.
The drama tells the story of Liang Jiyao, the heroic protagonist, who has gradually grown into a hero of the Second Sino-Japanese War during the many changes and experiences of national feud and family hatred.
Their call sign is "Cranes", but in the regiment they are affectionately called "cranes". Many consider the platoon to be "charmed", because its fighters manage to perform the most difficult tasks, take "tongues" and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines, returning even from the most disastrous situations. However, in reality, not everything is so simple: outings often end in failures, wounded and dead friends have to be borne by themselves, and each new task turns into a game with death. Their enemy is always treacherous, but resourcefulness, ingenuity and the help of friends help them not to lose faith in their cause and in victory.
During the 1999 Russian Presidential elections, the two leading candidates are Igor Komarov, a former Colonel of the KGB, and Nikolai Nikolayev, a retired General of the Russian Army. When a car bomb explodes outside one of Komarov's pharmaceutical companies, and a virus is stolen from inside, an investigation by the FSB ensues headed by FSB agents Sonia Astrova and Andrei Kasanov. Their investigation is obstructed by the Director of the FSB, Anatoly Grishin.
How, from the 1920s to the present day, financial power has gradually strengthened a hidden alliance with criminal organizations around the world.
Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.
From inside history's biggest empire, host Abby Martin records a world shaped by war & inequality, and explores the U.S. Empire, its rise to world hegemony and its impact on people and the planet.
Ravna Gora tells story of events after April War 1941. Serbia with accent on the Chetnic-Partisan conflict, at the beginning of World War II
Nurhaci rises from tragedy and betrayal to unite the Jurchen tribes and challenge the Ming dynasty. Guided by five women who soften his heart, he builds a powerful empire but is haunted by personal loss and regret.
The three-part miniseries chronicles the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States.
TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.