Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the sake of supposedly lofty ideals? The question remains as pertinent today as it was at the beginning of World War II, and it is becoming increasingly urgent to answer, as countless tragedies have been caused by unethical political decisions.

One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during ...

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...

A sickly scrawny man in a striped uniform takes a shaving brush and foam, and with a sharp blade, he...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

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

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

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

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...