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.

A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of ext...

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An...

WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial ...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on Germ...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this cele...

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

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

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...

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

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

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...