Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
The story of Billy Cottrell, a brilliant but troubled physicist whose world collapses when the FBI a...
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...
Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Uni...
Like many other young men of his generation, after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Aldo Giannini joined t...
In 1945, Adele Shimanoff joins the U.S. Marine Corps amid a larger plan to bring women into the mili...
This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest geogra...
Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the presen...
October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic b...
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...
They're the real 'goodfellas': 'Joe Dogs' Iannuzzi, Tommy DelGiorno, 'Big Dom' Lofaro. For the first...
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuc...