Three part documentary of the history of the Royal Air Force during World War Two. They combine actual Air Ministry films and period newsreel footage with interviews of surviving members of the air force. This final part covers the the years 1941-1945 from the campaigns to attack German military targets to mass night bombing, primarily from the viewpont of Bomber Command, and associated Air-Sea rescue. It ends with the food aid flights to the Netherlands immediatly prior to Victory in Europe. Featured aircraft include the Bristol Blenheim, the Vickers Wellington, and the heavy bombers Short Stirling, Handley Page Halifax and Avro Lancaster.
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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...
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
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In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent C...
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are w...
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen...
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai....
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme tol...
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...