He went off to war an unknown soldier and returned a beloved national hero. Often dismissed as a "do-nothing" president and a good-natured bumbler, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- the last American president to be born in the 19th century -- was actually a skillful politician, a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated presidents. Two-part documentary from American Experience.

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

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...

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

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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobi...
This short documentary produced by the University of Oregon Multimedia Journalism graduate program e...

This is a Swedish story of an unknown hero, Gösta Engzell, a down-prioritised bureaucrat at the Swed...

During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a f...

Set after the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America’s top college football stars set their fame as...

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

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The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a c...

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. ...