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.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

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...

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

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 ...

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschk...

Documentary detailing the successful Operation Mincemeat in 1943, which led to the Allies successful...
A special tribute to the immortal B-25 bomber. Features an assemblage of outstanding aerial footage...

A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the N...

Story of a simple-minded Finnish soldier set in the winter of 1943.

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...

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.