Three Days in August 1914

When the United States entered World War I, its Army Air Service lacked a combat-ready aircraft – a liability that prompted a search to find an...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

On the night of February 24-25, 1942, amid terror and neurosis caused by the terrible Pearl Harbor attack only two months earlier, a huge flying...

In 1944 Rudolf Breslauer documented the everyday life in the Westerbork transit camp on film, commissioned by the German camp commander Albert...

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance.

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the country folds, and then collapsed in facing the...

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at...

Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the war as illustrated by an assemblage of...

1917, The Train from Hell is an historical documentary about a train accident during WW1.

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...