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.

During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

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

French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

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On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters...

Nazi propaganda film “exposes” the United States and its plans against Germany and the German people...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...

The child of Holocaust survivors, CNN Anchor Wolf Blitzer, takes viewers through the United States H...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his w...

Wartime sweetheart Vera Lynn presents this documentary which sets archive footage and newsreel film ...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...