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.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...

After WWII had ended, it was realized by the American Allies that there were children whom Hitler tr...

End of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plan...

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...

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strang...

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a membe...

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assign...