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.

Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleei...

How was the Second World War experienced in Rouveen, Overijssel? This Orthodox Christian village nea...

On April 9, 1938, the 1st Mountain Division was formed in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and quickly grew to...

In June 1940 nothing was written. The appeal of June 18 by General de Gaulle was a hope but also a s...

The riveting story of the first all-Black tank battalion to fight in US military history. Under Gene...

In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...


From the beginning, Hergé's work, Tintin's creator, was conditioned by the ideology of his publisher...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ship...

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conques...

Henry Ford, the legendary automobile manufacturer, James D. Mooney, the GM manager and Tom Watson, t...

Based on the book of the same title by best-selling author Henry Buckton, this film is enhanced by a...

How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...
Short film that emphasizes the importance of keeping a tidy home when facing an atomic bomb.

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war fo...

The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a...

Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.