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 the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an is...

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper ano...

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee f...

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries wer...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

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

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.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

On April 30, 1945, while the Russian Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker....

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

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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.