During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand people managed to elude their pursuers, and probably also avoided being killed, thanks to the heroic and very efficient efforts of the Ponzán Team, a brave group of people — mountain guides, forgers, safe house keepers and many others —, led by Francisco Ponzán Vidal, who managed to save their lives, both on one side and the other of the border between Spain and France.

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

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

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

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportati...

A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschk...

Documentary detailing the successful Operation Mincemeat in 1943, which led to the Allies successful...
A special tribute to the immortal B-25 bomber. Features an assemblage of outstanding aerial footage...

A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the N...

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...