Here’s a look at the life of award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave. Personal Birth date: January 30, 1937 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Vanessa Redgrave Father: Sir Michael Redgrave, actor Mother: Rachel Kempson,

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench,​ Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith​, Joan Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

"World War II and Nevada: the Silver State’s Contribution to Victory" is thought to be the only book about the war through the eye of Nevadans.

Shira Klein, chair of the history department at Chapman University, said there is a popular misconception about Italy’s treatment of the Jews during World War II. That view, which she said is illustrated by the hit 1997 Italian movie “Life Is Beautiful,

Over the years, Churchill has been depicted many times on screen, with Gary Oldman’s Oscar-winning performance in Darkest Hour focusing on his early days as PM. Aside from the battle to defeat Hitler and Nazi Germany, another underdog part of Churchill’s life were his Wilderness Years.

Dame Joan Plowright, a British acting titan whose partnership with her late husband Sir Laurence Olivier turned the British theatre scene into one of the finest in the world, has died at the age of 95,

Find out about the emotional toll Tom Cruise's underrated performance as WWII hero Claus von in the gripping drama Valkyrie took on the the actor.

When Charity Adams Earley was sent across seas in 1944, she was faced with a monumental task: Get millions of pieces of mail to the soldiers meant to receive them. Under her leadership, a battalion of Black women nicknamed the Six Triple Eight (for the 6888th) sorted and sent the mail

Netflix's 'Six Triple Eight' tells the heroic true story of the only all-Black, all-female battalion in WWII, led by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington.

Paul Goffin has spent much of his adult life solemnly remembering the American Army Soldiers who fought to free his home country, Belgium, during

Willy Lindwer's shocking and deeply disturbing new Holocaust documentary Lost City reveals Amsterdam in a very new light.