The Light of Dawn: The Normandy Landings

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love...

Throughout his time as head of the Nazi party, Adolph Hitler evaded numerous attempts to assassinate him. However the secret Operation Foxely came...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....

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

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...

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 fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, by chronicling how the story of the battle has...