Pulitzer Prize -- winning journalist John Hersey caused a sensation when he published "Hiroshima", the first account for American readers of the horror experienced by victims of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb attack. "Hiroshima" stunned readers with its descriptions of the terrible aftermath of the bombing, yet Hersey never spoke about his experience in Hiroshima.

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...

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

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents ...

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives fore...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...