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.

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

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...

Explores the path of hitler from insignificance, to World domination, and demonstrates the delusions...

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive for...

During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted comm...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

In January 1942, the order activating the 'US Air Forces in the British Isles' was announced. On 12t...

This communist history film recalls the heroism of Soviet soldiers fighting the Nazis in World War I...

The impact of new documents from the international conflict that shook the world is enormous. Never-...

A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration c...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.