Efter terrorangrebet på World Trade Center i 2001 begynder CIA at jagte bagmanden, Osama bin Laden. Over hele verden foretager CIA en lang række hårdhændede afhøringer af formodede terrorister. Den nyansatte agent Maya bliver kvinden, der finder vej gennem de mange blindgyder, falske ledetråde og modstridende rapporter.
Under 2. verdenskrig bliver den britiske officer Jack Celliers bragt til en japansk krigsfangelejr af lejrens leder, den stolte Yonoi. Yonoi, der lever sit liv efter traditionelle samurai-forskrifter, gør alt for at knække den tavse, gådefulde brite. Det bliver en kamp på viljestyrke, men samtidig opstår der et særligt bånd mellem fangen og hans vogter. To mænd, der på samme tid er hinandens modsætning og hinandens spejlbillede.
En 5-årig pige forsøger at overleve midt blandt De Røde Khmerers pludselige opstand og rædselsregime i Cambodia.
En gruppe franske soldater med forskellig baggrund havner under 1. verdenskrig som tysk bevogtede krigsfanger. Selvom de blive behandlet relativt pænt, emmer ønsket om flugt og frihed. I ventetiden kan de ligeså godt forsøge at få det bedste ud af det, og humøret holdes højt med gags, vaudevilles og glimt i øjet.
Da den amerikanske B-24-bombepilot Clair Cline bliver skudt ned og fanget i det nordlige Tyskland, slutter én kamp, mens en anden begynder … kampen for at holde liv i håbet. Undertrykt bag nazisternes pigtråd må Clive og hans medfanger finde måder at skabe sammenholde på, ikke kun for at overleve, men for at overkomme deres fangenskab. Baseret på sande begivenheder.
Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they are marched off to Changi prison camp. Together, the six boys survive three and a half years of incarceration. Almost sixty years later, the six prepare to get together for what may be their last hurrah.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.
The Great Purge orchastrated in the Soviet Union during 1937-38 cost almost 700 000 lives. Especially ethnic minorities were targeted. Four-part documentary tells the story of what happened to the people living the Soviet Union, and how the terror was built in the red dictatorship.
