To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied invasion of Nazi-held Europe and the subsequent battles that captured the control of the Normandy coast. Some of the last surviving veterans recall in detail the terror, patriotism and drama from the frontlines of war. This special also honors the diverse backgrounds of all who served.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

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

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

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of th...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

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

During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to as...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

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

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

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

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

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.