The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was still thrilling in every way. This program sheds new light on the audacious escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp during World War II.
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...
The surprising story of how one of music's biggest icons helped to establish a USS Arizona memorial ...
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...
In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a d...
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prison...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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...
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looki...
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...