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.

The story of a courageous battle between U.S. Navy "Tin Can" ships and two of the most powerful Japa...

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for thei...

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as ...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...
Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The pl...

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

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...

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...