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.
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit ...
Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...
Arguably second only to Muddy Waters among the Mississippi Delta singers who traveled north and pion...
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing d...
During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lin...
A feature-length, condensed version of the 1952 documentary TV series 'Victory at Sea'.
War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy ...
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids int...
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the ...
A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his...
Throughout his time as head of the Nazi party, Adolph Hitler evaded numerous attempts to assassinate...
The eight-year Iran-Iraq War was one of the most brutal conflicts to devastate the region in the 20t...
Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...
A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to bl...
Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from th...
During the 16th century, pirates rule the Chinese coastline, pillaging the small villages and terror...