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.

As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied P...

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 ...

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...

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

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
Krause and the Greyhound crew travel from the beaches of Normandy to the ocean in the Pacific as the...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters...

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

A documentary film that includes footage of past Olympics held in different countries with an partic...

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a G...

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