With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
Great Britain was the only country to widely open its doors to German Jews.
NOTE: THIS CLIP - BEGINNING SCENES FROM SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - DEPICTS A GRAPHIC RECREATION OF THE EVENTS OF WAR AS AMERICAN SOLDIERS APPROACHED, THEN ...
What was it like to come ashore during D-day?
These are the Morse-code transmissions which then-corporal Irving Strobing sent during the hours before Corregidor fell to the Japanese on May 6, 1942...
In this clip, we see Germany's much-feared rockets - the V-2/A-4 - during launch.
This film is widely considered Leni Riefenstahl's masterpiece. It depicts the Olympics, held in Berlin during the summer of 1936, and opens wi...
General Leslie Groves was the lead coordinator of the Manhattan Project, the U.
This is part two of a video biography about General Leslie Groves, the lead coordinator of the Manhattan Project.
French resistors started an uprising against the German occupation during August of 1944.
Russell Phillips - whom his crew mates called "Phil" - was still alive when this story about Louie's life was produced.
Louis Zamperini is a humble man.
In 1947, Louis Zamperini met Cynthia Zamperini.
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