The Day After Trinity

On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, storming the beaches of Normandy. This...

Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her...

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.

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

The personalities behind the creation of the world's first atomic bomb were as extraordinary, and often as explosive, as the science they were...

The true story of a young Japanese girl who played the piano for POWs during World War II and how it affected their lives. It is a story of humanity,...

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three...

In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.

Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the...