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 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had...

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...

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

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...

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

A collection of material shot before and during WW2 in the director’s hometown of Banja Luka, where ...

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

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The destruction of the city and its architectural heritage during the Allied bombing of the Second W...