The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels dug by the real prisoners of war who escaped. Some of the surviving prisoners also join the team to assist with the tunnel locations and to describe what it was really like to live that situation. In an effort to understand the technical details of how this feet of ingenuity was achieved, the team recreate some of the equipment used by the prisoners.
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Re...
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strang...
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...
Eighty years on, the BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from the UK's D-Day veterans – some ...
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cro...
World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe, and the boots of the Third Reich echo through the str...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
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.
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...
Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and ...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World W...
Horrific Nazi experiments have left a surviving WWII soldier with a terrifying condition: at the sig...
Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imag...