This captivating documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the architect of the atomic bomb, explores his journey before the historic test and reveals the burden he carried after. De-classified documents, rare film footage and exclusive interviews, including Oppenheimer's grandson, show an intimate exploration of the burden Oppenheimer carried and the profound global impact still being debated today.
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Documents the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.
A WWII film about children evacuated from Britain and sent to Canada for their safety. The film begi...
When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put i...
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...
The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...
A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.
Throughout his time as head of the Nazi party, Adolph Hitler evaded numerous attempts to assassinate...
In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...
A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who,...
On March 24, 1944, in the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 British, Canadian, Norwegian and French pilots w...
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...
This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-y...
Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to t...
This story follows one man's quest to uncover the origins and reveal the mysteries of a possible Hol...
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.