In 1940 the Channel Islands became the only part of Britain to fall under Nazi rule. Now in this film Islanders speak from the heart about one of the most extraordinary periods in our history. Reliving in their own words the horror of the first air raids, the shock of occupation and the islands' gradual five year long decent into privation and starvation before experiencing the capitulation of the German forces and the joy of liberation.
Following the tradition of military service in her family, Alene Duerk enlisted as a Navy nurse in 1...
NOVA accompanies famed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer and his intrepid crew on a perilous mission to r...
Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a p...
A short documentary made from archival footage that explores the various dynamics of Japan and the U...
June 14, 1940. The German Army marches into Paris. France is an occupied country. Through exclusive ...
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...
Two women, one house. An intimate story about a Pole and a German placed by war on enemy sides and t...
Historians and engineers investigate how Allied forces conspired to destroy Hitler's "supergun".
What is it really like to go to war? Filled with terror, pain, and grief, it also brings exhilaratio...
Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanis...
A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by on...
This film tells the incredible story of Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret. Filmed at Bletchley in ...
Tony Robinson’s VE Day: Minute By Minute will take a unique look at a pivotal day in the history of ...
A meditation on youth, war and stunning bravery, featuring footage, taken from the National Archives...
The 3rd Division was in the van of the D Day assault force. Their task was to break through Hitler's...
The Maginot Line: thousands of subway bunkers and concrete defenses lining the French border from Be...
‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...
The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...