In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.
Empress Cheonchu is a 2009 South Korean period television series based on the titular character, an actual historical figure and her lifelong struggle to protect the country her ancestors built. The granddaughter of Goryeo Dynasty founder Taejo Wanggeon, the empress ruled as the regent for her son Mokjong, the dynasty's seventh ruler. Determined to realize her ambitious goals for the kingdom of Goryeo, she dons armor, battles against foreign invaders, and tramples her lover, her son and brother in her rise to power.
After the September 18 Incident of 1931, calls for resistance against Japan grew. Feng Yuxiang and Ji Hongchang, along with Wu Chengfang of the Communist Party, worked to form the Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Zhangjiakou. Ji, influenced by the Communists, joined the Party and became a leader of the Allied Army. The movement gained broad support, but Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese launched a campaign against them. Despite the challenges, Ji Hongchang continued his efforts to resist Japanese aggression and save the nation.
Heroes II: the Return is a 1991 Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during World War II.
The true and tragic story of Operation Rimau, one of the most daring raids of WW2. In September 1944 Ivan Lyon and 22 Australian and British troops attempted to blow up Japanese ships in Singapore. Just 10 miles away from the target they are discovered and so begin a long and desperate bid to escape to Australia. The series shows how after the war it is revealled that 13 men were killed during the pursuit and that the remaining 10 were murdered by the Japanese in a war crime. Tragically this was covered up and their killers were never charged while the men themselves never received any honours for their heroism.
The minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy. The story of the woman at the centre of one of the 20th century's biggest scandals – which changed Britain forever.
During the Second World War, the notorious Amsterdam criminal Dries Riphagen worked fanatically with the Nazis. Riphagen becomes immeasurably rich by tracking down, extorting and betraying Jewish people in hiding, and feels untouchable in the process. But when he betrays an important resistance group, the young police officer and resistance fighter Jan van Liempd opens the hunt for him.
This biography of Al Hajjaj Bin Youssef Al Thaqafi looks back on his cruelty, his clemency and his loyalty, and paints the portrait of a controversial regent.
Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett.
Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.