Remembering World War II

The I-400 was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Sen Toku-class submarines, which were the largest submarines ever built before the age of nuclear-powered subs. These massive vessels were longer than a football field and were used as submarine aircraft carriers.

Berlin 1945 time-travels in cinematic style into the city's most fateful year through the eyes of those who experienced it.

Crossroads in our History where the world swings one way or the other. With spectacular reconstitutions created by 3D modeling specialists.

Ex-CIA agent Ben Smith and a retired FBI officer journey through the Jungles of Burma in search of answers to a family mystery. They are searching for a crashed WWII plane that went down in this little-known, but important, theater of WWII, the perilous “Hump” - an airbridge over the Himalayas.

Could the Allies have won the war without aviation? Discover what went on behind the scenes of the historic, ambitious aerial battle that raged over Normandy.

This program will travel into the past to discover the fascinating details of Hitler’s wonder weapons - colossal tanks, suicide bombers, and the first guided missiles. Do the original blueprints have clues to revolutionary potential or fatal structural flaws?

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.

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.

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.

Our views of 20th century history have been shaped by popular beliefs and myths. But what if the truth was slightly different?

A mysterious World War II wreck is discovered off the coast of Italy by archeologists. Could this be the wreck of the long lost U-455, the last missing German U-boat?

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

Secret Nazi files from World War II reveal formerly classified technological innovations from brilliant German scientists who raced to create terrifying new “Wonder Weapons” and an atomic bomb. Some of their technological “firsts” remain the basis for modern-day air and spacecraft.

From D-Day through Liberation and beyond: uncover little-known facts, forgotten heroes and untold stories behind World War II.

Big movements of change have often started with tiny events or personal decisions that ended up affecting the history of our world.

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

After the invasion of the German army in 1940, the Jews living in France, with the help of many, began their fight for survival. The film shows the circumstances surrounding the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews and the civilian resistance that produced the many Silent Saviours.

During WWII the federal government took over the 60k acres of land known as, Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, turning it into a secret city where workers unknowingly were building the world's 1st atomic bomb. Today it’s known as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where some believe that WWII was won.

An original series that tells the often unknown stories of the men and women who have defined America and its place in the world.

At least 15,000 blue and fin whales were slaughtered by the German whaling squadron between 1936 and 1939. An intervention in nature from which the whale population has never fully recovered. A little-known fact: more than 80 years ago, the German whaling fleet was the third-largest in the world.

Cracking the Code reveals the greatest codes known to humanity and the brilliant minds that crack them…

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

Turning points in history often hinge on one decision. We look at moments in history where one decision changes everything.