The life story of Mania Hartmayer-Breuer, who fled Germany at the age of 16 after the "Reichskristallnacht" and made her way via Antwerp and southern France to Rome, where she found shelter with Catholic nuns and finally experienced liberation. From there she arrived in the USA with the first refugee transport.

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

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

Martha Gellhorn, Ruth Cowan, Dickey Chappelle: Three tenacious journalists who forged legendary repu...

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

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

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

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

‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...

The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.

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

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 ...

Marking the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII, the documentary features the first-hand accounts of...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

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

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World ...

Documentary on the main principles of Sun Tsu "Art of War" illustrated with examples from the second...