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.

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...

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

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

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

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a G...

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

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

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

During World War II, Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire. This documentary explores the experienc...

This film records the Japanese military's efforts to capture the Burma Road,one of the major supply ...

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

Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid ov...

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

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

The sequel of feature-publicistic film «You Can’t Live Like That». Showing the countrymen charmless ...