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 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...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...

End of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plan...

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...

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...

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.

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...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

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

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...