During WWII most zoo animals that could pose a danger to the public were slaughtered. Only two elephants survived the war, and trains were arranged to bring children from all over the country to see them.

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...

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

Horton the elephant agrees to watch over lazy Maisie bird's egg while she vacations. Much later, aft...

In Third Reich, the abuse of drugs made commanders and soldiers feel invincible. The Führer himself ...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in t...

An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zo...

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble...

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Par...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

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...

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of ...