Vastly outnumbered and outgunned, America's triumph at Midway seems like a miracle until you look at the key event that paved the way to victory: Breaking the secret Japanese military code. Discover how an intrepid group of code breakers made this victory possible, and meet Joe Rochefort, their eccentric leader, an oddball genius who wore a smoking jacket and bathrobe to work, but whose brilliance helped put an end to Japanese dominance in the Pacific.

Throughout his time as head of the Nazi party, Adolph Hitler evaded numerous attempts to assassinate...

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

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything in...

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

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...

One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during ...

This chronicle of the war crimes trial of the Waffen-SS battle group Joachim Peiper in Malmedy was c...
The compilation documentary We Will Remain Faithful is a testimony to the Czechoslovak resistance du...

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

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

Created as a companion documentary to the film "Valkyrie," this documentary details the true story b...
Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The pl...

In the darkest days of World War II, St. Peter's was shrouded in the shadow of the swastika. But eve...