NOVA accompanies famed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer and his intrepid crew on a perilous mission to repair and re-fly a B-29 bomber stranded on the Greenland icecap since 1947. In the face of incredible hardships, the team struggles to bring the old warbird back to life.

The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywo...

Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything in...

The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS I...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) i...

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

Writer/Director Kaneto Shindô recounts his time spent in the Japanese Navy in WWII. He tells about t...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

Documentary detailing the successful Operation Mincemeat in 1943, which led to the Allies successful...
A special tribute to the immortal B-25 bomber. Features an assemblage of outstanding aerial footage...

A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the N...

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

This documentary examines how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism, occult...

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences...