Colditz castle was used by the Nazis to hold the "bad boys", (those who regularly tried to escape from other camps). At all times the guards outnumbered the prisoners and, because some political prisoners were also held there they were *very* strictly monitored. But if you put all those people in one place and they're all trying to escape, well …

The tale of an unemployed Scotsman, William McGonagall whose ambition was to become England's Poet Laureate. One minor drawback is that his poetry is terrible.

He was Hitler's most feared henchman and his willing executioner. But in the last days of the war Hitler discovered that Himmler had been plotting behind his back. The faithful Heinrich had offered peace to the West. To Hitler, it was "the most shameful betrayal of history". For the first time we tell the fascinating story of Himmler's loyalty and ultimate betrayal. Through rare archival footage, previously unpublished documents and interviews with people who knew Himmler personally, this film throws new light on the startling paradoxes behind the most devious character of the Third Reich.

J.J. Hunsceker (Burt Lancaster), is a tyrannical Broadway columnist for the New York Globe who rules his demimonde with the press's power to create or destroy. Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), is the hustling publicist who is consumed by desperate ambition and hates himself because of it; he will do anything to gain the admiration of Hunsceker ("My experience, in brief, is dog eat dog.") The film was shot in black and white by James Wong Howe, giving it a grittiness that underscores the class ranking among the characters. In the script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, Falco's early prediction - "Every dog has its day" - comes crashingly true.

Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943.

Robert Hardy presents this three-video set chronicling the events of World War Two. From the Blitzkrieg of Poland, Denmark and Norway, through the fall of France, the invasion of Russia, the aerial and naval battles, the horrors of the concentration camps and the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima, up to the fall of Germany in 1945, all the major events of the war are detailed here.