During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions, only six of these POW's were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed, the horror stories of human depravity and the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan POW camp would come to light, considered by many as one of the most devastating chapters of the Pacific War.

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The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and t...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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Pinky Thompson grew up in Hawaii during a time when one was punished for being Native Hawaiian. Afte...

The economic and cultural improvements of the Soviet Occupied Sector are documented with scenes from...

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during t...

A film that relates the trial in Bordeaux in January 1953 of some of the participants in the Oradour...
Documentary about the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and its post-war construction.