In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.

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

A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschk...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

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

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

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