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.
The battle for Iwo Jima, in 1945, claimed the lives of thousands of men on both sides of the conflict.
As this orange-and-yellow fireball stretched up and spread, a mushroom cloud began to form.
Following the death of Franklin Roosevelt, who had recently won an unprecedented fourth term as Americas president, Harry Truman was sworn in as the c...
"Ultra" was the cover-name given to the actual intelligence, obtained from decoding Germany's military messages at Bletchley Park, which was secretly ...
After delivering parts of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sinks in July of 1945. Years later, a 12-year-old school bo...
Historians argue whether the Stalingrad duel between Vasily Zaitsev and Major Koenig ever really happened.
After telling the British people that Hitler was dead, Winston Churchill declared that May 8, 1945 would be VE (Victory in Europe) Day.
This clip is from Eye of Vichy (L'oeil de Vichy) - by Claude Chabrol and narrated by Brian Cox (in the English version) - a documentary compiling hist...
What was life like in Vichy France, where the French people were governed by a regime loyal to Hitler?
When Hitler decided to take-over Poland, he sent his military forces into that country in 1939.
This BBC documentary, evidencing life and death in the Warsaw Ghetto, first broadcast as a memorial to the people who lived there.
During the late summer/early fall of 1944, residents of Warsaw - on their own - resisted the Nazi occupation of their city.
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