This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a German military cinematographer of the 1st mining division, who participated in the legendary ascent of Elbrus on the night of August 21, 1942. From the beginning of the Second World War and the last international winter sports week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen follows the invasion of the German troops into the Soviet Union: Dnieper, Zaporozhy, Kharkov, Rostov-on-Don, Nogaean Steppe, Caucasus – fighting at 50 degrees below zero, military expedition into the world of ice and snow; – ascent of mountain arrows and subsequent hoisting of flags on the Elbrus at an altitude of 5,633 meters.

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 194...
The destruction of the city and its architectural heritage during the Allied bombing of the Second W...

Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to t...

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

How could a German Wehrmacht soldier become a celebrated soccer idol of the Britons in the post-war ...

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

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

On April 30, 1945, while the Russian Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker....

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

B-17 Flying Legend examines the importance of World War II's most famous airplane, and raises awaren...

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...

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

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...

See Kenneth W. Rendell's collection of over 6,000 artifacts that range from the end of World War I a...

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recoun...

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Aust...