The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imaginable to most people on earth. And yet, with war comes new inventions. New ways of destroying the enemy. New machines to wipe out human life. The advent of nuclear weapons not only brought an end to the largest conflict in history, but also ushered in an atomic age and a defining era of "big science". However, with the world now gripped by nuclear weapons, we exist constantly on the edge of mankind's total destruction.
On the 40th anniversary of the conflict, senior commanders and ground troops reveal how a series of ...
Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual foo...
Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.
The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an at...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Scholars and eyewitnesses provide a picture of the 75 hours between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima...
In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such ...
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a...
This 1991 Academy Award®-winning documentary uncovers the disastrous health and environmental side e...
Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never be...
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaborat...
The story of a Franco-Belgian family living in Japan from 1927 to 1947, a time of prosperity and for...
Filmed in a village of the indigenous Mandaya people, located in a mountainous area of southeastern ...