‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing board to the fighter aircraft that became the symbol of Britain’s determination to fight on to victory. It celebrates the history of this acclaimed aircraft, the men who designed and built it, and those who flew and fought in it. The story, along with dramatic archive and colour film of aerial combat, graphically illustrates the appeal and fascination the Spitfire has maintained since it faced and fought the fighter and bomber formations of the Luftwaffe.

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

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

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

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...

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...