French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 194...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...
The destruction of the city and its architectural heritage during the Allied bombing of the Second W...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

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

On April 30, 1945, while the Russian Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker....

This video invites you inside the U-505 submarine, the actual craft that stalked the waters of the A...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...