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.

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family...

In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent C...

Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves...

The end of World War II brings Europe a new political system, reshapes national and personal identit...

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and t...

Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 194...

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on ...

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen...

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his fa...

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lin...

The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twel...

In the final days of the battle of Manila during World War II, fanatical Japanese naval forces barri...

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...

During 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authori...

Three filmmakers dive deep into the storied and complex legacy of Ms. magazine through the lens of s...

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit ...

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they ris...

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resist...