A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence.

Ireland's history is steeped in religion and mystery. Why did its people stop worshipping the earth ...

For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...

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

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...

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

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

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

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

Documentary detailing the successful Operation Mincemeat in 1943, which led to the Allies successful...
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...

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...

A look at the Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious community similar to the Amish or the Mennonites i...

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...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the hist...

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