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 Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

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

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Rooseve...

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...

Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants t...

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...

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

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in P...

A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by on...