
The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS I...

In WWII's final years, a soldier in the German army, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch resistance ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

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...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

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

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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...

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

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, ...