The Hawker Hurricane was the first fighter monoplane to join the Royal Air Force and the first combat aircraft adopted by that arm capable of exceeding 300 mph in level flight. The Hurricane shouldered the lion s share of Britain s defence during the Battle of Britain. This program portrays the history of this legendary aircraft which was to form an immortal partnership during the infamous battle.

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...

The international success of the film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen made U-96 one of the most famous...

J. Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb d...

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousand...

The film is a search for Peter Gasparik's grandfather Stefan Truban, who was a resistance fighter an...

We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and preva...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ship...

In the midst of World War II, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-female African-A...
A film about silence and difficulty to tell a story, starting from an interview with the last two fo...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...

This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in t...

In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of Ki...

A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of L...

Documentary about the Swedish submarine Ulven which was sunk by a mine in Swedish waters in 1943 kil...

The incredible story of the Avro Lancaster, one of the finest bombers of the Second World War, which...

Former classmates at a school in the Southern Germany city of Ulm, Jewish and non-Jewish, recall the...

An hour long documentary on the war in the Pacific. Using Marine Corps color footage, the only foota...

Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv...