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.
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

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

Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five childr...

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...

Created as a companion documentary to the film "Valkyrie," this documentary details the true story b...

The Battle of Peleliu was fought on the lovely Pacific island of that name by Japanese and American ...

A documentary covering the actions of the 6th Marine Division on Okinawa during WWII.

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...

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant ...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this cele...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...