When Winston Churchill needed the help of the US Army to defeat Hitler, he made a controversial decision to allow America to bring its segregated Army to the UK. Racial tension between black and white American soldiers spilled out onto the streets of Britain, resulting in shoot-outs, riots and murders. Searching for people alive today directly impacted by the violence, the program examines its lingering impact.
In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a d...
A dramatised account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War II, dire...
A documentary edited by Jiří Weiss on the role of Soviet women in the Second World War
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
Throughout his time as head of the Nazi party, Adolph Hitler evaded numerous attempts to assassinate...
Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The pl...
The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...
This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the libera...
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w...
This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series of morale-boosting wartime propaganda...
A feature-length, condensed version of the 1952 documentary TV series 'Victory at Sea'.
In the small town of Rechnitz a terrible crime against humanity was performed during the holocaust. ...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
When Canada entered World War II, the National Film Board suddenly had an urgent new mission—and hun...
CHARBON depicts how Europe was built on fossil fuels over the past 100 years. And how it was torn ap...
September 28, 1938, war is about to break out. Tension was mounting, as Chamberlain and Daladier on ...
When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put i...
The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS I...