WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a satellite view of the conflict, allowing you to experience it in a way that puts key events and tipping points in a global perspective. By re-creating groundbreaking moments that could never have been captured on camera, and by illustrating the importance of simultaneity and the hidden effects of crucial incidents, HISTORY presents the war's monumental moments in a never-before-seen context. And with new information brought to the forefront, you'll better understand how a nation ranked 19th in the world's militaries in 1939 emerged six years later as the planet's only atomic superpower.

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked b...

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

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

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...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...

Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast...

In Slovakia, they often and gladly honored those soldiers who refused to serve the fascist regime an...

In WWII, a squad of U.S. African-American soldiers are sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines t...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...

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

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...