Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals the lead-up to the offensive, its impact on the war and the brinksmanship that resulted from the battle for Moscow. Rare footage from both German and Russian archives and detailed maps illustrate the conflict, while award-winning historian and author John Erickson provides insight into the pivotal maneuvers on the eastern front.

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...

For longer than the United States has been an independent nation, there has been a Marine Corps. The...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

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

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...

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

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the landmark exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective fro...

Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" from around America and how the ser...

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of...

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

A definitive documentary charting the rise and fall of Amicus film productions.

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...