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.
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intellige...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
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.
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...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing...
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
During WWII two sisters have stolen some emeralds from the lesbian Nazi SS officer (Rena Riffel) and...
Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germ...
"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of ...
In 2021, a Pentagon report revealed what the US government had denied for decades -- UFOs are real a...