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.

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in Fr...

The adventures of three friends running an air charter business in Africa during WW II and their rac...

The search for a government soldier taken captive on February 20, 2014 in Kyiv takes protester Sashk...

Gouge - a documentary tracing The Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yo...

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís C...

In a moment captured in time, die-hard Italian fascists conduct reprisal executions of civilians in ...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

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

Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid ov...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep ...

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to en...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

In the final days of the One Year War, a Zeon special forces group infiltrates a colony to gather in...

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, do...

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated whe...

1943, the Japanese Army is falling back to the Pacific, leaving only collaborationist troops. Commis...

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of peo...