Trains en guerre

Examines four famous European battles of World War II: the Battle of Britain, the failure of Barbarossa, Operation Overlord and the liberation of France.

Polskie drogi

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

A former POW leads a special task force to hunt down the culprits responsible for carrying out the orders to murder 50 of the 76 escapees from Stalag Luft III.

Dans la roue du Tour

Secret Army

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Die Wahrheit über den Holocaust

Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we have not finished accounting for the destruction of Europe's Jewish population. One question remains today: not why, but how was the Shoah possible?

The Occult History of the Third Reich

Documents both the influences of alternative belief systems on the Nazi ideology and Hitler's personal philosophy, and the history and development of the ideas and symbols that would be used along with eugenicist racial politics to perpetrate the murder and oppression of millions during World War II.

The Third Reich: The Rise & Fall

An intimate, authentic portrait of Hitler's Germany as recorded by the people who lived it. Never-before-seen home movies, Nazi propaganda films and personal recollections culled from German's diaries, journals and letters provide a rare look inside the darker pages of world history.

39-45 en sol canadien

Claude Legault heads to places infused with memories, wonderful reminders of the country's unsung role during World War II, to gather touching, human and often unimaginable stories about Canada's participation and the people who lived through it.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

The Dirty Dozen

Tv show made up of 14 episodes.

Secret Agent Selection: WW2

The training programme of one of World War Two's most covert organisations, the Special Operations Executive or SEO, is resurrected.

Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland

Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.

Battle of the Atlantic

Exploring the 'hidden front line' of the Second World War.

Nazis, U-boats and the Battle for the Atlantic

Dive into history. Family memories reveal Northern Ireland's crucial role in WWII's epic sea battle, as divers explore the lost wrecks that reveal the human cost of the conflict.

Histoire de la police française

Historian Jean-Marc Berlière delves into police archives, uncovering forgotten facts and dissecting myths about the French police’s complex history. Over four episodes, he traces societal changes and human tragedies, piecing together testimonies and evidence like a detective.

Aragon, un écrivain dans le siècle

Douces France(s)

Band of Brothers

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

La Maison des bois

During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.