Canada: A People's History - Episode 14: 1940 to 1946 CE. Canada comes of age in the anguish of World War II, with soldiers on the beaches at Dieppe and women in the industrial work force back home. The country's military role, and the domestic, social and political consequences of the war are traced through poignant stories of Canadians on both sides of the Atlantic. The horrific global conflict steals the innocence of a generation... but brings hope for a new future.
After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Jul...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
This documentary is the story of two Mennonite brothers from Manitoba who were forced to make a deci...
In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever mor...
Everyone knows the public archive footage of Hitler. But most of it is silent. What was he saying? S...
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the ...
1939-1940 Finnish war. In the very first days, a group of female volunteers goes to the front. Young...
During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war ...
A group of expat criminals are coerced into a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a game-c...
Following the tradition of military service in her family, Alene Duerk enlisted as a Navy nurse in 1...
Amidst the horror and chaos of war, two enemies are forced into an unholy alliance in the battle for...
The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Naz...
Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleei...
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pa...
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen...
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...