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.

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

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the S...

This video invites you inside the U-505 submarine, the actual craft that stalked the waters of the A...

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

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

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...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American ...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the ...

During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba...