An in-depth look at the events and experiences of the greatest seaborne invasion in history, focusing on the personal stories of those involved. Narrated by John Hurt, it re-lives the events of those decisive, yet perilous days and reflects on the private triumphs and personal tragedies that proved crucial to the outcome of the Second World War.
The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...
Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Uni...
Like many other young men of his generation, after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Aldo Giannini joined t...
In 1945, Adele Shimanoff joins the U.S. Marine Corps amid a larger plan to bring women into the mili...
This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest geogra...
Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the presen...
October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic b...
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuc...
This major Documentary reveals the true story of the first victory of the Allies over the Axis power...