September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an is...

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper ano...

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee f...

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries wer...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

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.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Cauc...

On April 30, 1945, while the Russian Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker....

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...