Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, by chronicling how the story of the battle has changed. As new information has come to light, and forgotten stories are remembered, the history of World War Two evolves. The BBC has followed that evolution, and this programme examines the most important stories, and how our understanding of them has been re-defined since the war ended over 70 years ago.
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...
As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter los...
In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS....
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland...
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: pu...
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow s...
Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in th...
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Jap...
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...
In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...