The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newbo...
Continuing their exploits against the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, the Ballists attack an eche...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
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...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
A young, unnamed woman, while biking home from the bank she works at, happens upon a weakened tree g...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a ...