This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare. This series features captured German and Russian film footage, much of which has never been seen before. For decades the Cold War prevented us from looking closely at what really happened between the Russians and the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. More than a struggle between nations, it pitted maniacal tyrant against maniacal tyrant, evil ideology against evil ideology. The lives of tens of millions of human beings were consumed by its raging hatreds and appalling indignities. One in every ten Russians died. One in every four Poles died. Whole divisions of Italians, Romanians, Hungarians disappeared with barely a trace. An average of 17,800 people died on every single day and this, the war on the Russian German Front, lasted for 1,400 days. This series features captured German and Russian film footage, much of which has never been seen before.

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

See Kenneth W. Rendell's collection of over 6,000 artifacts that range from the end of World War I a...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...

Guy Martin joins the two-year restoration of a Spitfire that was buried in a French beach for decade...

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together ...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

Wartime sweetheart Vera Lynn presents this documentary which sets archive footage and newsreel film ...

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter los...
The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Rooseve...