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.

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

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

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...

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

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

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

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive for...

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

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front....

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

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

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

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...