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.

Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He ...

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...

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operat...

Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolit...

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 ...

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...

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled ex...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 194...

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

The movie tells the story of Franz, a Waffen-SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman ...

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive offic...

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a ...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...