The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that battle, Royal Navy ships fired on the French Fleet in order to prevent it from falling into German hands. A French battleship was sunk and several other ships damaged. Nearly 1,300 French sailors were killed.
James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that ...
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war fo...
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
Eighty years on, the BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from the UK's D-Day veterans – some ...
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into Ger...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease...
Henry Ford, the legendary automobile manufacturer, James D. Mooney, the GM manager and Tom Watson, t...
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operat...
In June 1940 nothing was written. The appeal of June 18 by General de Gaulle was a hope but also a s...
The Last Ring Home is a made-for-TV documentary that recounts the story of how a WWII hero's last wi...
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...