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 misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads...
Krause and the Greyhound crew travel from the beaches of Normandy to the ocean in the Pacific as the...

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun i...

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...

A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama fr...

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, trage...

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front....

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a drama...

An American gambler masquerades as a Catholic priest during the fall of Manila early in World War II...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a su...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians wh...

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...