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.

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depressi...

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"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Minist...
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The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for thei...

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants...

This documentary retraces the life of Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), French Christian philosopher. ...

Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battl...

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...

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

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...