Besa: The Promise

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

The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who pla...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".

In January 2012 Italian divers discovered the wreck of a massive plane off the coast of Sardinia. At...

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shap...

Filmmaker Mark Cousins goes to Albania for five days, and films what he sees. He discovers that the...

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...

After consolidating itself as a tourist destination in the mid-1960s, this small coastal village has...

The months-long battle of Monte Cassino, one of the bloodiest of the second World War, is related by...

Informed by the conviction that film was a means to advocate patriotism, Lai established China Sun M...

A reconstruction using archive film of the bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a discussion of the mai...

The Old Testament book of Exodus tells the story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of Egypt. This doc...

Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the histor...

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...

WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY spec...