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.
The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two se...
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...
Three years in the making in conjunction with the BBC. Using never seen before home movies, photos a...
The movie tells the story of Franz, a Waffen-SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman ...
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented ...
London, England, World War II. During a bombing, several people are trapped in the basement of a bui...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imag...
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
What happened to painter Beatriz González, who made us laugh with the irony of her works, to get to ...