History's Greatest Battles

Modern science reveals the environmental forces that have shaped human history

In the closing days of World War II, a daring band of American pilots embarks on a secret mission to capture a revolutionary German aircraft that will change the course of history.

This fascinating series unearths the story about how the Great War went on underground.

WW2. The British Royal Navy turn to a retired wargamer and an unlikely group of young women to develop tactics and sink the German U-boats.

Allied Special Forces launched daring wartime missions to capture or kill Nazi generals where they were stationed on the front lines of war. This film captures the real-time drama felt as the Special Forces ordered these dangerous and complicated missions to exotic locations.

In the second World War, a new generation of planes and daredevil pilots take aerial combat to deadly new heights.

October 24, 1944, the world’s greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan’s navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead, Musashi, its top-secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean.

By means of archive images and interviews with experts, take a behind-the-scenes look at the true stories of war innovations and secrets.

Crusading knights and Ottoman armies battle for control of four of the medieval world’s greatest fortresses.

Between 1939 and 1945, thousands of World War II wrecks disappeared and remained hidden...until now. Watch their remarkable stories.

Take a deep dive into the great armed conflicts that made the Normans one of the world’s most powerful dynasties.

From gunpowder to unmanned drones, these are the mechanisms and machinery man has created to wage war—on land, at sea and in the air.

In the early 1990s, legendary German "ace" pilot, Adolf Galland, shares his personal recollections of the war to a camera crew.

Just as the Vietnam War is ending, another begins next door. A Khmer Rouge attack on U.S. interests in Cambodia leave American soldiers trapped in harm's way.

Explore the stranger side of military history with some of the most mysterious, unusual and bizarre stories to come out of our World Wars.

As the US Navy pressed westward across the Pacific during WWII, the Japanese military turned to desperate, but often lethal tactics - the most legendary of which was the Kamikaze.

A two-part story behind the military history of the glider at war.

In the summer of 1942, a plan emerged to send the large German Ju86R aircraft on a mission over Britain.