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.

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

A sobering look at the brutal treatment of Japanese-Americans before, during, and after WWII as well...

Writer/Director Kaneto Shindô recounts his time spent in the Japanese Navy in WWII. He tells about t...
Documentary about the liberation of Maastricht.

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WW...

František Fajtl and Filip Jánský were among the few Czechoslovak airmen who actively fought on all m...

Relive one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history that led to the systematic starvati...

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black hi...

Shipyard is a landmark documentary covering the creation and life of Bellingham, Washington's wooden...
Interviews with two veteran survivors of the pivotal battle of WWII
Vastly outnumbered and outgunned, America's triumph at Midway seems like a miracle until you look at...

Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The pain...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...
Zakynthos is a Greek island on the Ionian Sea famed for its beauty. It also has the unique distincti...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...