The code to unlocking this feature documentary is 1949, the year the director was born, and also the year of the return of Soviet repressions to Latvia. The film tells a very personal story against the background of less visited historic events – the death of director’s father due to the KGB repressions, which is closely linked to the devious game Soviet Latvia’s KGB played against Swedish-British-American spy agencies.
The Nazi extermination camps at Auschwitz in Poland were photographed in extraordinary detail from t...
The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...
Documentary detailing the successful Operation Mincemeat in 1943, which led to the Allies successful...
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...
In the months and years following the end of the World War Two, Allied forces faced a series of bomb...
In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...
The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...
This video invites you inside the U-505 submarine, the actual craft that stalked the waters of the A...
The destruction of the city and its architectural heritage during the Allied bombing of the Second W...
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...
The indelible testimonial of David Shentow, Canadian WWII immigrant and Holocaust survivor lies at t...
When the British army looks set to defeat Mussolini’s Italian forces, Hitler sends reinforcements; t...
Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of...
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...
Pinky Thompson grew up in Hawaii during a time when one was punished for being Native Hawaiian. Afte...