Using masterfully restored footage from recently declassified images, The Bomb tells a powerful story of the most destructive invention in human history. From the earliest testing stages to its use as the ultimate chess piece in global politics, the program outlines how America developed the bomb, how it changed the world and how it continues to loom large in our lives. The show also includes interviews with prominent historians and government insiders, along with men and women who helped build the weapon piece by piece.
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 ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
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...
On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to des...
Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diar...
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
A documentary on the famous World War II battle, using only on-ground footage from Marines and inter...
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assign...
Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv...
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...