2,000 US soldiers board a British transport ship without any idea that the lifeboats are rusted so badly that they could never be launched. They’re issued lifebelts that need to be inflated instead of standard Naval life jackets. The following day the ship is sunk by one of the first radio-guided missiles ever used in war, killing 1157 soldiers and crew in what remains the greatest loss of life at sea due to enemy action in the history of US war. The government deflected responsibility for the large loss of life by declaring the attack classified indefinitely and ordering all survivors to remain silent.

The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS I...

On March 24, 1944, in the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 British, Canadian, Norwegian and French pilots w...
Using animated maps and real footage, the film shows how Hitler systematically invaded and occupied ...
Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The pl...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
You are about to enter the world of double-cross and triple-cross, of information and disinformation...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

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

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...
A special tribute to the immortal B-25 bomber. Features an assemblage of outstanding aerial footage...

A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the N...

In the months and years following the end of the World War Two, Allied forces faced a series of bomb...

In the darkest days of World War II, St. Peter's was shrouded in the shadow of the swastika. But eve...
Here is the hair raising, seat-of-the-pants tale of men who dared to fly their planes, unescorted, t...