A stunning colour film document of American director George Steven's experiences as a soldier in the European theatre of WWII. From the freeing of France's capital to the horrors of the concentration camps, "D-Day to Berlin" is a deeply personal and affecting account. find out more...

Features three films from the man described by Lindsay Anderson as 'the only true poet of the English Cinema'. The feature-length 'I Was a Fireman', the story of 24 hours in the life of a fire crew during the Blitz, is an innovative work that mixes documentary and fiction to great effect. In Listen to Britain, Jennings collects and edits the sounds and sights of wartime Britain into an extraordinarily moving and effective collage. Diary for Timothy is a film that is relevant for every generation find out more...

An amazing documentary that recounts the rescue of ten-thousand children from Nazi Germany just prior to WWII. Into The Arms Of A Stranger tells the story using archive footage and interviews with many of the surviving children, who, for the war at least, made new homes in Britain. A fascinating and emotional true story. find out more...

A major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence; before, during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents, bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Striking in their different approach to the form, using poetry, dramatic reconstruction and explicit propaganda, the film-makers found fresh, new ways to get their message across. find out more...

This outstanding documentary about history and guilt from author and human rights lawyer Philippe Sands concerns the two elderly sons of prominent officials in Nazi Germany. It entirely upends what I confess were my own preconceptions about what such a film would be: that is, a placid, consensual study, ruefully brooding on the sins of the fathers. This is far more challen find out more...

This is the most powerful and best known documentary on the holocaust ever made. Commissioned by the French Comittee for the History of the Second World War in 1955, it contains some of the most chilling and haunting images of human brutality ever seen. The director uses a simple approach to what must have been a very daunting project, managing not to aestheticise the grim subject matter. A very important film. find out more...

Robert McNamara was the American secretary of defence during the presidencies of both Kennedy and Johnson, a man that history hasn't got much good to say about. In this remarkable interview McNamara attempts to cast himself in a more favourable light, but it is his revelations concerning the whys and wherefores of events such as the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam which make the Fog of War such a hypnotic documentary. Superb. find out more...

1945 was a pivotal year in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society. The find out more...