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.

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.

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

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...

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires...

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...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

A historical drama focusing on Manuel L. Quezon years after the Philippine Revolution during the Ame...
Zakynthos is a Greek island on the Ionian Sea famed for its beauty. It also has the unique distincti...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...

The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic...