September 28, 1938, war is about to break out. Tension was mounting, as Chamberlain and Daladier on one side, and Hitler and Mussolini on the other, met in Munich. This conference marked the culmination of the weakness of European democracies in the face of the rise of fascism. Through period documents and interviews, author Marcel Ophüls recounts this meeting and recreates the European climate of 1938.
The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly ...
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...
Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Uni...
Like many other young men of his generation, after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Aldo Giannini joined t...
In 1945, Adele Shimanoff joins the U.S. Marine Corps amid a larger plan to bring women into the mili...
This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest geogra...
Join an American couple’s courageous mission in 1939 to help refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe. O...
Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
The worlds of a former neo-Nazi and the gay victim of his senseless hate crime attack collide by cha...
Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the presen...
Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...
October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic b...
July, 1944. As WWII raged on, a group of conspirators, led by Claus von Stauffenberg, plotted to ass...