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 ...

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...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

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

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

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

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

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 ...

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare ...

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held i...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

Jeta is a student who is a member of the illegals and tries to create a group of antifascist girls i...