Shock Troops

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.

In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them

A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.

During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

A deadly face-to-face between a German prisoner and a Jew locked in a concentration camp enclosure.

As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners of war to spy behind German lines.

January 1945. The first French regiment of paratroopers to fight with an American unit prepares to liberate Alsace in France during World War II.

During World War II, French commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.

Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".