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.

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...
The true story of Traian Popovici, a Romanian Mayor that saved 20,000 Jewish People from death durin...

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

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...

A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to bl...

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from th...

Starting with a Nazi plan to steal the Rimet Trophy from Italy during World War II, the story unfold...

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...

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 ...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into ...