June 14, 1940. The German Army marches into Paris. France is an occupied country. Through exclusive amateur footage, personal stories, and popular songs from the time, this fi lm recounts life with the enemy during the occupation, as seen by the French... and the Germans! Despite the Nazis and the troubled war times, day-to-day life in occupied France went on. People learnt to live with the rationing, the cues, the curfew... Many try to forget the hard times, mainly thanks to the movies in which big stars provide a little dream and lead a privileged life. These stars don't actually collaborate, butadapt and give the impression of normal life during the war. After all, is it necessarily shameful to shake the hand of an enemy?
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Re...
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...
Eighty years on, the BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from the UK's D-Day veterans – some ...
World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe, and the boots of the Third Reich echo through the str...
Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diar...
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 ...
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...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacita...