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 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...

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

In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication cod...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast...

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...

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows,...

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...

Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid ov...

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.