Jack Merluzzi

Jeff Manning

Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known. But what about those who provided the uranium? We look at a mysterious man who derived huge profits from the business of war.

The Moment in Time documents the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II when it was feared the Nazis were developing the atomic bomb. The history of the bomb's development is traced through recollections of those who worked on what was known as "the gadget."

A television documentary directed by Marcel Ophüls examining the Munich Conference of September 28, 1938, when European leaders met to avert the outbreak of war. Through archival documents and interviews, the film reconstructs the political atmosphere surrounding negotiations between Britain and France on one side and Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on the other, situating the agreement within the broader context of European appeasement in the face of fascism.

A dramatised account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War II, directed by Jiří Weiss and written by acclaimed author Laurie Lee.

A documentary edited by Jiří Weiss on the role of Soviet women in the Second World War

This documentary explores famous figure J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who was called, "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

The lives of the people of Malta and their endurance under the trials of the Second World War are displayed in this documentary short film.

Matera, 1943. Partisan Nichi has been wounded and is returning to her brigade's hideout, but her true concerns are focused on the fate of her husband, a prisoner of the German army. When she arrives at the hideout, however, she finds no one there except a young courier accompanied by a civilian woman who urgently needs to be escorted out of the city by nightfall.