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.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
A special tribute to the immortal B-25 bomber. Features an assemblage of outstanding aerial footage...

A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the N...

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five childr...

Created as a companion documentary to the film "Valkyrie," this documentary details the true story b...

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flyi...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive offic...
A man who was a communist MP during the First Republic joins the Slovak National Uprising, but is wo...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

The movie tells the story of Franz, a Waffen-SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman ...