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.

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

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...

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

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in t...

A film that relates the trial in Bordeaux in January 1953 of some of the participants in the Oradour...

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...

UNCOUNTED exposes how the election fraud that altered the outcome of the 2004 election led to even g...