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.

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...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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

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...

1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although sco...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during Wo...

On August 8, 1988, the world’s first and largest Satanic rally took place. Ripped from a video featu...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...