On August 6, 1945, the first-ever nuclear bomb deployed in war was dropped on the city of Hiroshima Prefecture, leaving an estimated 140,000 dead in its wake by the end of that year. Among the victims, one particular age group stands out for the sheer number of fatalities sustained: 12 and 13 year-olds, children of first year junior high school age. We investigate the tragedy of this lost generation, piecing together surviving records and speaking with survivors, for whom the memories of children robbed of their futures that day are still burned deep in their memories, nearly eight decades on.

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

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

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

In June of 1940 a dark cloud descended upon the City of Light as Nazi forces occupied Paris and the ...

A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

Explores the path of hitler from insignificance, to World domination, and demonstrates the delusions...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Divis...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

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