
Explore the universal drama of war: why leaders and soldiers pick up arms to fight, the technologies that have determined outcomes, the tragedies and triumphs of history’s great battles.
A massive deployment of paratroopers on June 5, 1944, provides support for the Allies in the Normandy invasion, stymieing Germany's attempt to drive them back.
The development and evolution of the tank, from its birth in WWI to modern urban warfare.
Los Angeles, one of the largest cities in the United States and the world, has a unique story; home to indigenous tribes, just two hundred years ago Los Angeles was a small outpost of Mexico, after it took possession of California from Spain after the Mexican War of Independence; taken by the US in the Mexican-American war of 1848, Los Angeles remained a scrappy cowtown until the discovery of oil in the 1890s.
The Hollywood film studios are founded by Jewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe who achieve their American Dream by acquiring a social status equal to the Los Angeles WASP elite.
Examining a battle that highlighted the strategies the Allies used to win the war.
Searching for the traitor who gave up the leader of the French Resistance.
Meet a pilot who single-handedly beat back the Luftwaffe in a warbird.
At the start of the Second World War, German forces pour into Poland from the west; the Soviet Union invade from the east; they wipe Poland off the map, leaving millions displaced.