A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which cost the lives of at least a million German soldiers, Red Army troops and Soviet civilians, was the bloodiest of...

Documentary series recounting the exploits of the Special Operations Executive in World War Two.

Covers the 1941 Japanese military strike on a Hawaiian naval base in never before seen detail.

Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.

Historian Dan Snow relives the story of a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany in World War Two...

Using witness testimony, archive and archaeological evidence, this three-part series reveals the untold story of the preparations to defend World...

During the second world war, the Nazis looted everything they could get their hands on, including an estimated 600 tons of gold, thousands of...

He fired cannon on his own countrymen, wooed the mistress of a formidable opponent and even threatened the Pope. He was Napoleon, one of the most...

Adolf Hitler pretended to be poor but amassed a huge private fortune. The Führer may have believed he was Jewish. Rigorously fact-checked...

An examination of the events that lead up to the attack on Pearl Harbour.

While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed...

A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it...