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.

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

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

Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

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

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppe...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted comm...

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Aust...

Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Divis...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

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

Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown recounts his flying experiences, encounters with the Nazis and other adv...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

Thirteen intelligence agents who have worked on secret missions for Frances DGSE tell their accounts...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...