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.

The Manhattan Project was an enormous undertaking that required the efforts of many of the world's m...

Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an anci...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for thei...

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It...

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

See Kenneth W. Rendell's collection of over 6,000 artifacts that range from the end of World War I a...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operat...

Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Divis...

In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. G...

Rotterdam, just after the First World War: Dirk and Louis grow up as inseparable brothers in a warm ...

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, do...

The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as ...

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

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...