Títulos em Século XX

Nuneaton, 1935. Kathy has grown up at Treetops home for children, where Sunday and Tom Branning have always cared for her as one of their own. She enjoys her life at Treetops Manor, surrounded by her beloved horses, and with a future as a nurse ahead of her, she could wish for nothing more. Her foster sister Livvy is not as driven as Kathy. Sunday is keen to see both her girls married, but Livvy has no intentions of settling down and would much rather spend time with her friends. When Kathy falls for the wrong man, her ambitions are soon forgotten as she embarks on a secret affair.

Werther in Westfalen, 1933: Josephine, die jüngste Tochter von Anton und Anna Leyen, hat die Liebe zu Süßigkeiten geerbt und arbeitet in der Zuckerwarenfabrik ihrer Familie. Als sie den jungen Manfred kennen lernt, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf. Durch eine Idee von Manfred kreiert Josephine ein neues Bonbon, das einzeln verpackt und immer gleich groß ist – die ersten Markenbonbons sind erfunden. Die beiden heiraten, aber ihre Liebe wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als die Nationalsozialisten an die Macht kommen und Manfred, der jüdischer Herkunft ist, Repressalien ausgesetzt ist.

The Allies and Fighter Command have gone on the offensive. The French town of Dieppe is selected for the first major assault on the European continent. But Jox McNabb and No.111 Squadron start to feel like they are being lured into a trap. And their new leader is acting unpredictably, making them worried that he can't be trusted.

1939: As Hitler's Panzers storm the Polish border, a small boy boards a train bound for the British countryside where strangers will safeguard him from bombs soon to darken London skies. The boy's mother, Beryl, a hospital nurse, stays back to tend to the shredding wounds inflicted by the lethal German assault. Her depleting days are made worse when she learns her husband, Gordon, has become a prisoner of war, interned at a camp deep in the Reich.

Rosamund Fischer ha ottant'anni e vive ad Arlington, in Virginia. Un giorno squilla il telefono e la voce di un uomo pronuncia il suo vero nome, Inge Brigitte. La donna si trova catapultata nel 1940: in Europa infuria la guerra, e Inge Brigitte e i suoi fratelli trascorrono un'infanzia idilliaca. Ma è davvero così perfetta? I bambini non sanno di vivere accanto a un campo di concentramento; non sanno che le domestiche, il giardiniere, le sarte, il barbiere sono tutti prigionieri; non sanno che il padre, Rudolf Höss, è in realtà il comandante di Auschwitz.

Juin 1940. Les Allemands entrent dans Paris. Partout, le couvre-feu est de rigueur, sauf au grand hôtel Ritz. Avides de découvrir l’art de vivre à la française, les occupants y côtoient l’élite parisienne, tandis que derrière le bar œuvre Frank Meier, le plus grand barman du monde. S’adapter est une question de survie. Frank Meier se révèle habile diplomate, gagne la sympathie des officiers allemands, achète sa tranquillité, mais aussi celle de Luciano, son apprenti, et de l’énigmatique et troublante Blanche Auzello.

Summer 1941—Hitler launches his surprise assault on the Soviet Union. As German Panzers drive deep into the heart of Russia, the Red Army is desperate for help that can only be delivered through convoys of Allied merchant ships sent through the bitter Arctic. But appalling weather and deadly cold are not the only dangers awaiting the crew of the little escort ship HMS Protea. They must run the gauntlet of attacks by German aircraft and surface raiders, as well as the wolfpacks of U-boats waiting for them amid the ice.

Hungry, exhausted, and bloody, the U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal can't rest for long because the Empire of the Rising Sun is massing to roll over them like a bloody tsunami. And all that separates the marines from destruction is a single little river and 500 miles of tropical islands.

In the last days of World War I, Corporal Adolf Hitler was blinded by mustard gas, necessitating a month-long confinement in a military psychiatric hospital. Peculiarly, amid Germany's final days of World War I, the modest corporal was transported 700 kilometers from Ypres, Belgium, to northern German Pomerania, seeking the expertise of the nation's foremost neuropsychiatric physician.

When Morrie moved in next door to Hilde in 1936 they became best friends. They are just five years old. But this is Nazi Germany and the law decrees they cannot remain friends because he is Jewish and she is the daughter of a Nazi policeman. For a short time music and culture opens up a new world for Hilde. But it cannot last. Her loving grandparents take in the children and gift them a pet budgerigar.

In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from Jerusalem where the German Kaiser dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor.

Born to a secure, middle-class Polish Jewish family, seventeen-year-old Reuven works alongside his father, an artisan businessman whose shop creates the finest handmade umbrellas in Poland. But the family’s peaceful life shatters when the Nazis invade their homeland, igniting World War II. With terrifying brutality, the Nazis confiscate their business, evict them from their home, and strip away their rights, threatening the lives of the city’s Jewish population, including Reuven and Zelda, the girl he loves.

Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War is in full swing, and Josiah wants to prove his loyalty by serving his country. But Chinese Canadians are barred from joining the army out of fear they might expect citizenship in return. So, Josiah heads to the shipyard where he finds work as a riveter, fastening together the ribs and steel plates of Victory ships. One night, Josiah spots Poppy singing at a navy club. They fall for each other instantly, and soon Josiah is spending his nights at Poppy’s small wartime house.

Weit weg vom Lärm der Welt. Altenburg, 1945: Nicht nur im kleinen Eifeldorf hat der Krieg seine Spuren hinterlassen, auch in der Familie Fuchs. Nun heißt es, nach vorne zu blicken. Johannas Töchter Klara und Mia sind zu jungen Frauen herangewachsen. Die Schwestern sind unzertrennlich und doch unterschiedlich wie Tag und Nacht: Während die jüngere Mia mit ihren dunkelbraunen Haaren alle Blicke auf sich zieht und die Menschen mit ihrer ungezwungenen Art für sich einnimmt, hat Klara das rotblonde Haar ihrer Mutter geerbt, ist nachdenklich und in sich gekehrt.

Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country’s call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.

At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside, but still in the shadow of the chimneys, they were given better food, kept free of vermin, and were even taught meditation to imagine full stomachs and a day without fear. The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish prisoner named Fredy Hirsch. Historian and biographer Wendy Holden tells the inspirational and uplifting true story of Fredy Hirsch: The Teacher of Auschwitz.

Con le letture esclusive dell'autore Vincenzo Consolo. In un piccolo albergo di Parigi, dove aspetta di incontrare il figlio esule per terrorismo, lo scrittore Gioacchino Martinez ricorda la sua infanzia in Sicilia, negli anni della guerra, la tragedia che ha segnato la sua vita, e un altro trauma, più piccolo ma non meno ossessionante: un film, Judex, visto all'oratorio, dove le avventure di un giustiziere in mantello nero venivano improvvisamente interrotte dalle incursioni belliche.

Mitreißend, fesselnd und schonungslos authentisch... "Dieser Moment gehört uns. Uns alleine... für immer..." Deutschland Mai 1944 - Seit dem Einfall der Wehrmacht in Frankreich und der damit verbundenen Einsetzung der Vichy-Regierung wird Charles, ein junger Soldat aus dem Süden Frankreichs, unter verheerenden Bedingungen im Grenz-Stalag Malschbach gefangen gehalten. Als Gerüchte über eine baldige Verlegung der Lagerinsassen ins Innere des Landes aufkommen, entschließt er sich Hals über Kopf, seine Fluchtpläne in die Tat umzusetzen.

Pianist(e): Zelfstandig naamwoord. Iemand die een radiozender bedient of bestuurt – vaak in code. Londen, 1940. Het leven van Marnie Fern staat op zijn kop als haar grootvader omkomt bij een luchtaanval. Als ze ontdekt dat hij voor het Nederlandse verzet heeft gewerkt als radioagent, weet Marnie dat ze zijn missie moet volbrengen. Koste wat het kost. Aan de andere kant van de radio is collega-pianiste Corrie Bakker verstrikt in een gevaarlijk kat-en-muisspel in het door de nazi's bezette Amsterdam.

Military leaders and historians have told the story of the atomic bomb. But the official accounts never focus on the thousands of ordinary Americans who helped make it happen. Rain of Ruin tells the story from their point of view for the first time.