Eighty years on, the BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from the UK's D-Day veterans – some now more than 100 years of age. Rachel Burden traces their stories in Normandy and hears memories of the massive beach invasion and the battles that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe.

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World ...

In January 1942, the order activating the 'US Air Forces in the British Isles' was announced. On 12t...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...

Documentary on the main principles of Sun Tsu "Art of War" illustrated with examples from the second...

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

Documentary short film depicting American Army, Navy, Marine, Air Forces, and Coast Guard joint assa...

Marking the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII, the documentary features the first-hand accounts of...

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive for...

He built the mightiest army in history and selected its leaders. Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton al...

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and...

During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted comm...

Wartime sweetheart Vera Lynn presents this documentary which sets archive footage and newsreel film ...
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 194...