Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppelin waged an 18-month terror campaign on the...

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world as the largest and most powerful warship afloat....

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without their ever...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes and consequences are examined. In addition, a...

The gruesome story of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe in the dark days of World War II, based on the records written...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German...

During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Based on reports, letters and diary excerpts,...

A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a compilation of film of the cameramen themselves,...

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war...