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.
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-y...

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recoun...

This film records the Japanese military's efforts to capture the Burma Road,one of the major supply ...

Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid ov...

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...

Using never-before-seen footage, Japan's War In Colour tells a previously untold story. It recounts ...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front....
The Survivors of the WW2 Battle of Arnhem tell their stories of the brutal and exhausting conflict.

"Mein Kampf" presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Pol...

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...

World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

This communist history film recalls the heroism of Soviet soldiers fighting the Nazis in World War I...

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...