During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted communications code. Without a doubt, the key player in this game was Alan Turing, an interdisciplinary scientist and a long-forgotten hero.

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

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

World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...

In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, ...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...
This short documentary produced by the University of Oregon Multimedia Journalism graduate program e...

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to ...

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned...

A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Camp...

Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of...
Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.

The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and...

"Mein Kampf" presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Pol...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...
Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily ...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...