With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
The King's Speech - starring Colin Firth as King George VI - tells the story of how the Duke of York (known to his family as "Bertie") overcame a spee...
This is the trailer for "The King's Speech.
"The Longest Day," a 1962 movie by Darryl F.
Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.
Disregarding personal peril, Germans - like Dietrich Bonhoeffer - resisted Hitler.
WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS NEWSREEL CLIPS OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
This is the theme song of The War, a Ken Burns documentary.
Seeing World War II through the eyes of those who fought it, and from the perspective of families who worried about their loved ones safety, Ken Burns...
Before the Doolittle Raiders flew to Tokyo, it seemed that Japan would win the war.
To the Shores of Iwo Jima depicts actual battle footage of fighting on the heavily-fortified, well-defended, Japanese-owned (Tokyo Imperial Prefecture...
The flag-raising at Mt.
This trailer - for the film "Enemy at the Gates" - tells the story of a sniper legend stemming from one of the most horrific battles of World War II -...
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