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.

Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known. But what about those who pr...
A man who was a communist MP during the First Republic joins the Slovak National Uprising, but is wo...

The international success of the film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen made U-96 one of the most famous...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders...

On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Squ...

Intimately following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo, we observe kids lea...

In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yuk...

A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...

1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as...

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the vi...
German training film from World War II.

October 28, 1940. Along with the Italian army's attack on the Greek-Albanian border, Greece comes un...

A film about a district in Buda, which to this day cannot face the inconceivably cruel crimes commit...


The US military forms a squadron of unconventional recruits during World War II to trick the German ...