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.

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...

After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast,...

During World War II, Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire. This documentary explores the experienc...

The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after h...

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of D...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of...

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the ...

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island...

This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents ...

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliatio...

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...
In July 1951, all the sides to the Korean War sought a ceasefire. For a ceasefire, the Allied and Co...

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

A group of partisan illegals entangled in a love triangle during Ustasha reign in Nazi-occupied Zagr...

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.