During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Based on reports, letters and diary excerpts, filmmaker Luzia Schmid sketches a personal portrait of three fearless women and their unique attempts to report on the war.

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

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, histori...

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on ...

During World War II, Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire. This documentary explores the experienc...

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries wer...

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

In January 1942, the order activating the 'US Air Forces in the British Isles' was announced. On 12t...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the ...

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

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

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/...