Browse Movies : TBA Month : War : "new york"

The story centers on The New York Herald Tribune correspondent Marguerite Hiigins, who had to overcome sexism and bias in order to be able to cover the Korean War, and her journey with an American platoon across the peninsula climaxing with mass evacuation of hundreds of thousands of South Koreans in the face of advancing Chinese and North Korean armies.

In 1942, Rudolph Vrba is deported to Auschwitz at the age of 18 from his hometown in Slovakia. He becomes connected to the underground resistance within the camp where he and his friend Fred Wetzler devise an ingenious escape plan. In the Spring of 1944, they break out of the prison, just as the Nazi's Final Solution is heading into its deadliest months. Once free, Vrba and Wetzler set off through nearly 100 miles of treacherous Nazi territory and are tracked by SS search parties desperate to hunt them down. After multiple close calls, they make it back home to Slovakia where they write the first eyewitness accounts of the death camps. The Vrba-Wetzler Report finds its way to FDR, Churchill, the Pope, and finally, to the front page of the New York Times, where it exposes the truth of the Final Solution to the world. In the end, Rudi's escape and thorough account of the horrors of Auschwitz helps to save hundreds of thousands of lives.

American officers discover German jewels and attempt to smuggle them to New York. It is based on true events in 1945.

Covering the Vietnam War for UPI, Kate Webb survives fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia after she is taken hostage by Communist Forces/Viet Cong in 1971. She is believed to be dead — her obituary even runs in the New York Times — before she is released.