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.

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...

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...

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked b...

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF i...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had...

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by...

Documentary about the world of the Japanese geisha. Unattainable by all but the wealthy and powerful...