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...
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...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
Syndrome K is the true story about a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease created by three R...
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...