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.
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
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...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the histor...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY spec...
"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe. "This pi...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
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...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
A reconstruction using archive film of the bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a discussion of the mai...