National Geographic looks in some detail at 6 of the many close brushes with death Adolph Hitler had at the hands of assassins. The potential for the plots to succeed are examined as is the unpleasant fate of the would be assassins.

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywo...

Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything in...

The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS I...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

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.

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...

In WWII's final years, a soldier in the German army, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch resistance ...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) i...

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...

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

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

Writer/Director Kaneto Shindô recounts his time spent in the Japanese Navy in WWII. He tells about t...

Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, the Allies can already be heard in Nesselbühl in Swabia w...