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...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 194...

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...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

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

This video invites you inside the U-505 submarine, the actual craft that stalked the waters of the A...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...