Over 100 years ago, humanity witnessed the greatest war that had ever occurred: World War I. Nearly two million men from across Asia were recruited to fight in the war. They were Indian soldiers from remote communities, Chinese farmers from rural outposts who worked as laborers, Vietnamese fishermen participating on behalf of their French colonial masters, and Japanese sailors in service of their emperor. But today, few remember them or their sacrifices. From India's Forgotten Army to the Chinese Labor Corp, Vietnam's war and rebellion to Japan's alliance and subsequent imperialism, this program examines Asia's war effort and how it...
When Germany began Europe's WWII by invading Poland in 1939, China had already been fighting Imperial Japan for two years. This brutal war would cost 14 million Chinese lives while inflicting vast suffering. China's resistance was crucial to the outcome of the Pacific War, later won by the US and its allies. This film is an emotional, eye-opening journey that re-writes history as we know it.
In this BBC documentary series newly declassified documents are used to examine the strategic roles played in the war by thirteen of the world's regular and resistance land, sea and air forces.
In the midst of the 2020 pandemic, immigration and racial strife and World Wide economic collapse, a young activist woman of color falls in love with a Conservative Caucasian. Not without the help of three wise Homeless Men and their odd Friends who inform the young lady of the worlds biggest conspiracies and the ominous Committee of 10 who are hellbent on taking over the world. They also awaken her to "The Frequency" - a vibration that, if achieved, opens up a vortex to a mysterious Café in the Void where there exists no time - no space. Once there she meets Bob Marley, Gandhi, Thomas Paine and John Lennon who are at a crossroads in their lives before they went out and changed the world. With the advice of a mystical café barista and the historical figures, Vivi discovers the secret to make the world a better place to live. But is she too late? And can her new love help her go out and change the world?
A comprehensive program that examines the events of World War I year by year, highlighting significant technological developments that ultimately brought the fighting to an end.
From fierce street battles and heated debates between opponents and friends to hatred and agitation - the documentary series delves into the history of the Greens, who were controversial from the very beginning.
The two-part documentary Crime in Post-War Germany shows how strained life was between 1945 and 1949 in the four occupied zones. Using the example of individual, particularly serious criminal cases, like in Dresden where a wood collector comes across the severed legs of a person or in Hamburg, where the so-called rubble murders terrify the whole city.
UK Updated version of a History Channel Production called "Hitlers Empire - The Post War Plan". It's probably the greatest historical "what if?" of all time. A question that fascinates and horrifies in equal measures: what if Nazi Germany had won the Second World War? In this brand-new and exclusive six-part series, author and historian Guy Walters reveals how Hitler had already started to implement plans of world domination long before the war had started and explores how the Fuhrer intended to carry them out, regardless of the human cost.
The Battle of the Rhineland was one of the largest WW2 battles the Allies fought on German soil and part of the critical final campaign against Nazi Germany on the western front.
The Battle for the Rhineland was a series of operations in early 1945, the dramatic finale of the Allied advance from the coast of Normandy to the borders of the Reich. The desperate German forces had managed to form a last line of defence with their backs to the Rhine – the famous river that stood between the Allies and the heart of the German Reich.
The Battle of Alcatraz tells the story of one of the greatest jailbreaks of all time. The year is 1946, and five desperate convicts launch a brilliant escape plan. That is until mayhem erupts, and the Rock becomes the site of a dramatic and violent stand-off.
Vivid and heartbreaking stories told by the last Tommies - filmed in their 90s and 100s - remembering life and death in World War I, illustrated with powerful archive.