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.

A look into the life of American actor James Stewart, whose inspiring tale of valor, purpose and fai...

In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication cod...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows,...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

How could a German Wehrmacht soldier become a celebrated soccer idol of the Britons in the post-war ...

Set in wartime Belgium, two brothers—Staf (or Louis) and Dirk Segers—grow up inseparable, only to fi...

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of...

Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1...

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

German retaliation expedition burned down the village of Radopolje and killed all the men. When firs...

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, trage...