The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.

During World War II, Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire. This documentary explores the experienc...

On August 24th of 1940 a group of cameramen cross the immense territory of the Soviet Union before i...

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. ...

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...
BERG investigates a historical site through an alternate shift between documentary and fictional rep...

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive for...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family li...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
In 1944, at the tail end of the war—in which Finland aligned with Germany for a time in a bid to fig...

March 1945, on the frontlines of the Tatra Mountains, Romanian and German soldiers prepare for battl...

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

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...