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The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenager, he became a member of the French Resistance...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000...

One of Germany's U-boats, U-234, was loaded with secret supplies and passengers for a huge voyage to Japan in the waning days of World War 2, this is...

See Kenneth W. Rendell's collection of over 6,000 artifacts that range from the end of World War I and the rise of Nazism to the start of World War...

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WWII to turn the tide of the War in the Pacific.

The destruction of the city and its architectural heritage during the Allied bombing of the Second World War.

Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish Communist, Sandor Rado, led a spy network that...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by...