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.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

In this documentary, wealthy entrepreneur Bryan Johnson puts his body and fortune on the line to def...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, the Allies can already be heard in Nesselbühl in Swabia w...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...

This chronicle of the war crimes trial of the Waffen-SS battle group Joachim Peiper in Malmedy was c...

The story of the legendary battle through the eyes of Jedrek - a boy who went through the hell of th...

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...

Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years...