Portugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot. Caught in a vise between the Axis and the Allies, Antonio Salazar, the country’s strongman, used every trick in the book to get his country through unscathed. In this war of nerves in which anything went, the Portuguese dictator took brilliant advantage of the only weapon available to maintain his country’s independence: neutrality.
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
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...
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About the events of the final stage of the Second World War — the defeat by Soviet and Mongolian tro...
"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of ...
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on com...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged ...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...