This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-year-old boy became a high-ranking member of the Hitler youth movement during World War II. The story is told in his own words. This film originally aired as part of the "America Undercover" series on HBO.

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontaineble...

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benj...

The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS I...

"Letters from Europe" brings to light the words of men and women who gave their lives resisting the ...

Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything in...
Evocation of the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were slaugh...

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...

LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U....

Tony Robinson’s VE Day: Minute By Minute will take a unique look at a pivotal day in the history of ...

In 1939, as the world stood on the brink of World War II, Hartheim Castle, Austria, was at the centr...

Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful...

A profile of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the film covers his role in saving the lives of Jewi...
In WWII, the English Channel was a vital passageway. Here, explore the previously untold story of th...

During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the ...