On the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of ships reached the French coast of Normandy as part of an Allied operation to take back France from the Germans. For the next 85 days, U.S., British, and Canadian soldiers engaged in conflicts of unimaginable violence, conquering and liberating the region's cities, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. From the D-Day invasion to the final Nazi surrender in Argentan, this is the definitive story of the three-month Battle of Normandy as it's never been seen before.

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppe...

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

Drinking chocolate flashes before your eyes and makes an offer you can't refuse.

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant ...

Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The pain...

Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An...

WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial ...

An Allied medic, rumored to be Jesus Christ, gets into a philosophical debate with a Catholic-Nazi i...

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for th...

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.