Bježeći iz poslijeratne Europe, vizionarski arhitekt László Toth stiže u Ameriku kako bi ponovno izgradio svoj život, posao i brak sa suprugom Erzsébet nakon što su bili prisiljeni razdvojiti se tijekom rata zbog pomicanja granica i režima. Sam u čudnoj novoj zemlji, László se nastanjuje u Pennsylvaniji, gdje bogati i istaknuti industrijalac Harrison Lee Van Buren prepoznaje njegov talent za gradnju. Ali moć i naslijeđe imaju visoku cijenu.
Zlokobni likovi okupljaju se oko mladića posvećenog štićenju onih koje voli u poslijeratnom zaseoku koji vrvi korupcijom i brutalnošću.
Detektiv Hercule Poirot je u mirovini i živi povučeno u Veneciji. Usprkos vlastitom protivljenju, pozvan je na seansu na koju nerado odlazi. Kada gost bude ubijen u ukletoj palači u kojoj se održava seansa, Poirot je primoran vratiti se iz mirovine i ponovo upotrijebiti svoje svjetski poznate detektivske vještine. Poirot pritom otkriva skriveni svijet tajni i budi duhove zaboravljene prošlosti.
Priča počinje smrću glavnog urednika, kada se redakcija okuplja kako bi odabrala tri priče koje će objaviti u komemorativnom izdanju časopisa. A one pripovijedaju o umjetniku osuđenom na doživotnu kaznu zatvora zbog dvostrukog ubojstva, o studentskim neredima i o otmici koju je razriješio šef kuhinje.
Akcijska drama o sedam muzejskih upravitelja, umjetnika, arhitekata, kuratora i povjesničara umjetnosti koji odlaze na bojište Drugog svjetskog rata da spase umjetnička djela od nacističkih lopova i vrate ih njihovim vlasnicima.
Američki pisac vestern romana Holly Martins stiže u poslijeratni Beč, podijeljen na četiri okupacijske zone, na poziv svog prijatelja Harryja Limea, koji mu je obećao posao. No, po dolasku saznaje da je Harry poginuo u sumnjivoj prometnoj nesreći. Martins, sumnjajući u službenu verziju, počinje istraživati Harryjevu smrt, susrećući se s njegovim poznanicima i otkrivajući mračnu mrežu ilegalne trgovine lijekovima. U potrazi za istinom, Martins se upleće u opasnu igru mačke i miša, suočavajući se s korupcijom, izdajom i moralnim dilemama u razorenom gradu.
Badnjak, 1944. Američki vojnici daleko od domova dočekuju još jedan ratni Božić. Skromnu svečanost priređuju im satnik Bob Wallace (B. Crosby), prije rata uspješni pjevač i vojnik Phil Davis (D. Kaye). Kada se vojnicima pridruži i general Thomas Waverly (D. Jagger), okupljanje se pretvori u oproštaj s njim, jer odlazi na novo zapovjedničko mjesto. Priredbu prekine neprijateljski napad u kojem Phil spasi Bobu život. Njih dvojica nakon rata nastupaju kao duet Wallace & Davis, postaju popularni, a jedan od nastupa odvede ih na Floridu gdje upoznaju sestre Judy (Vera-Ellen) i Betty Haynes (R. Clooney), članice također pjevačko-zabavljačkog dueta...
U Londonu 1950-ih, gospodin Williams, državni službenik, koji se godinama ne može pomiriti sa smrću svoje žene sazna da je neizlječivo bolestan te odlučuje uzeti slobodno vrijeme kako bi proživo ostatak života punim plućima.
The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.
Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros. Television for ABC. The show was set in the fictional city of River Run, Ohio in 1945, 1946, and 1947. The show's theme song, "Accentuate the Positive", was written by Johnny Mercer and performed by Jack Sheldon. Forty-two episodes were broadcast in the United States over two seasons from 1991 to 1993. TV Guide, Abigail Van Buren, and fans showed determination in getting ABC to continue the show for a third season before it was cancelled.
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
During the thrilling social change of the mid-1950s, four remarkable women who previously served secretly during WWII as code-breakers, turn their skills to solving murders overlooked by police. In the process they are plunged into fascinating corners of the city, forge powerful relationships, and rediscover their own powers and potential.
In the wake of World War II, 11 Allied judges are tasked with weighing the fates of Japanese war criminals in a tense international trial.
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.
In a small area of West Germany, the American military presence opened up a new world in the early 1950s and paved the way for individual freedom, freedom of movement and capitalism in Germany. In this time of upheaval, two friends are looking for their place and have to fight time and again with the 'old order', the conservative forces from politics, church and society. Confronted with the seductions of the new world, the two dissimilar women make an opposing development that puts their intimate friendship to a severe test ...
A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.
1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland. This small neutral country, which has been all but spared by the war, becomes a hub for Nazi war criminals, Allied Secret Services and Holocaust survivors.
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Viceroy of India shortly after the Second World War in the days leading up to Indian independence.
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
A six-part documentary series about the least known events of World War II. The series reveal a little-known picture and countless unknown details of the events of World War II in the north.
This 9-episodes documentary series extensively examines the history of Poland in the 20th Century, telling the story through archival films, newsreels, interviews, and readings from novels and poems.
