This powerful and thought provoking film chronicles the compelling events in the Pacific Theater of WWII, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the American occupation of Japan in 1945. It depicts the strength and courage of America's youth, while examining how these men and women dealt with being thrust into this brutal war. The film includes interviews with war veterans, both American and Japanese, from all branches of the military. It features testimony from medics, nurses, dog handlers, as well as Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned at internment camps in the United States. The film also includes a first hand account of the tragic impact of the atomic bomb on Japanese citizens. Among the veterans who appear is Zenji Abe, a Japanese veteran who flew the mission to bomb Pearl Harbor, and retired General Paul Tibbets who flew the mission to bomb Hiroshima.
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to ...
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...
During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on Germ...
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into Ger...
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. ...
French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night a...
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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...
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...
The secret past of a World War II-era intelligence officer comes to light when his grandson, actor J...
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...