D-Day 80: We Were There

Action on the Beach

Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily (1964).

1964

Festung Bratislava

1976

Normandy '44: The Battle Beyond D-Day

James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed the invasion. Challenging some of the ma

2014

The Royal Air Force at War 1939-1941

Compiled from the Imperial War Museum Official Collection, this film collects rare and previously unseen film material shot by official cameramen on b

2005

Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy

How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World

2021

D-Day to Berlin: A Newsnight Special

George Stevens's remarkable film is acclaimed by historians as the most important colour footage taken during the war. Milestones covered include the

1985

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five mo

2017

Night and Fog

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

1959

Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific

This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From

2003

Facing the Phantoms

French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context o

2009

39-45 : Les policiers dans la résistance

2020

Return to Guam

Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a co

1944

Struma

Romanian documentary about the Struma disaster in 1942.

2001

Mains basses sur les savants d'Hitler, le plan secret français

2023

In Time's Shadow

Drawing upon eye-witness accounts from survivors and participants in the bombing of Hiroshima, this programme shows how both Japan and the United Stat

1995

6th Marine Division on Okinawa

A documentary covering the actions of the 6th Marine Division on Okinawa during WWII.

1945

The Black Book

The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the

2020

Charlotte: A Royal at War

The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Roosevelt became a vital catalyst to win back freedom for

2008

Łódź Ghetto

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the s

1989

A Deal With The Devil

The story that was silenced for 91 years was revealed for the first time: in August 1933 the leaders of the Zionist Organization signed "transfer agre

2024