Shot primarily by twelve French cameramen (led by filmmakers Jean Painlevé and Jean Grémillon), in August 1944, this film captures the final French insurrection in German-occupied Paris, the surrender of the Germans, and the mass celebration in the streets. (There is an English-language version narrated by Noel Coward.)
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...
The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...
When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a ...
With 66 million passengers coming through it each year, Roissy-Charles-De-Gaulle airport is Europe's...
This documentary examines how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism, occult...
The story of a courageous battle between U.S. Navy "Tin Can" ships and two of the most powerful Japa...
During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba...
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
In the darkest days of World War II, St. Peter's was shrouded in the shadow of the swastika. But eve...
Here is the hair raising, seat-of-the-pants tale of men who dared to fly their planes, unescorted, t...
The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
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 background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...
Writer/Director Kaneto Shindô recounts his time spent in the Japanese Navy in WWII. He tells about t...
One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during ...
Created as a companion documentary to the film "Valkyrie," this documentary details the true story b...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...