More than 60 years on, researchers are still arguing about exactly why Omaha Beach was the hardest fought of all the landing points of D-Day. Presenter Richard Hammond and Dr Simon Trew of ...

Martin Bormann, the man who, at the end, controlled all access to Hitler, was regarded by his Fuhrer as his most loyal comrade and was named as the executor of Hitler's will.

This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.

The sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst maritime disaster in history. Sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945, the death toll on the Wilhelm Gustloff was equivalent to nearly six Titanics.

A tale of a Veteran German Tank driver from the Second world war. He tells his story in flashbacks from his home in Britain as an old man...

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.

Psychological analysis of the biggest madman of the 20th century.

Auschwitz, 1943. Joseph Mengele - the Nazi doctor known as "Angel of Death " - conducts a series of horrific human experiments. Experiments designed to determine if twins hold the key to building a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race for Adolf Hitler.

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.

Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and RussiaSummary: The Winter War was an epic life and death struggle that changed the course of World War II, and saved a democracy. Fire and Ice documents this timeless story of courage ...

A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisors.

Not only people from the Allied nations during World War 2 fight against the Axis nations, there were also many who were born in those nations who took up arms against what they believed was wrong.

Ten individuals, ten dramatic stories, ten extraordinary days, all leading to the big historical event: the end of the worst war the world has ever known, World War 2.

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti, but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by first officer Fletcher Christian.

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead.

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.