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.

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as t...

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba...

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

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...