To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.
Here is the hair raising, seat-of-the-pants tale of men who dared to fly their planes, unescorted, t...
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Jap...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. ...
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w...
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: pu...
British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians wh...
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans...
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhe...
June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...
In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbau...