The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS IF THEY WERE ANGELS is a story of courage, heart, sacrifice and the heroism of miners & fishermen of 2 small towns, who risked their lives to save nearly 200 American sailors, shipwrecked on the rugged cliffs of Newfoundland. Narrated by Peter Coyote, it’s a deeply layered tale of navigation errors, courts martial mistakes, a steep loss of life, and resonates today as if the very telling of its deep humanity offers a lifeline for our fractured times.
On June 10, 1944, the SS murdered nearly the entire population of the French village of Oradour. The...

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

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

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

Throughout his time as head of the Nazi party, Adolph Hitler evaded numerous attempts to assassinate...

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

Documentary detailing the successful Operation Mincemeat in 1943, which led to the Allies successful...

A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the N...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...

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

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

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