James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed the invasion. Challenging some of the many myths that have grown up around this vital campaign, Holland argues that we have become too comfortable in our understanding of events, developing shorthand to tell this famous story that does great injustice to those that saw action in France across the summer of 1944.
Captain Muller struggles to survive fighting overwhelming Russian forces. Wounded, he is sent to Nor...
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join...
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during Wo...
Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...
1939-1940 Finnish war. In the very first days, a group of female volunteers goes to the front. Young...
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates a...
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back int...
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously...
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small tow...
Live from Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Huw Edwards introduces coverage of the National Commemorati...
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare ...
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held i...
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the S...
End of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plan...
A documentary covering the actions of the 6th Marine Division on Okinawa during WWII.
The 30-minute film centers around a group of high school students who became nurses called Himeyuri ...
Amidst the horror and chaos of war, two enemies are forced into an unholy alliance in the battle for...