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...

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

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

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...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WW...

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

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

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

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

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

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals th...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Explore the stories of women caught up in World War II, from the American Home Front to Auschwitz Co...

Created as a companion documentary to the film "Valkyrie," this documentary details the true story b...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...