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 ...

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...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants ...

During World War II, an Italian agent tries to infiltrate the Albanian guerrilla units under the ide...

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...

Film set in three different times. In the beginning, Miti is killed while defending his land. Then, ...

Four partisans are tasked with delivering a song to the Congress of Përmet.

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign...

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Barde...