Pay respects at the largest Nazi concentration camp memorial
Visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum in Poland, dedicated to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation, featuring historical exhibits and artifacts
Explore D-Day landing sites and WWII memorials
Play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a classic multiplayer first-person shooter game set in World War II.
Visit Westerplatte, the site of the first battle of World War II in Poland, known for its historical significance and monuments.
Easy Company from Normandy to Berchtesgaden; Spielberg and Hanks' ten-part war.
A burned man in a Tuscan villa remembers a desert affair before the war.
Takahata's devastating story of two children in the last months of the war.
Three timelines converge on the beach evacuation of 1940, almost without dialogue.
The Omaha Beach landing that changed how war is filmed.
A Jewish cinema owner and a squad of commandos rewrite the end of the war.
The Peace Park and the hypocentre, plus Dejima, the island where Japan traded with the world for 200 years.
Hitler told through Goethe’s Reynard the Fox, in woodcuts and archive, narrated by Marlene Dietrich.
The first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Holocaust documentary, narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor.
Australian newsreel from the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, shot by Damien Parer, who was killed two years later.
The British account of El Alamein, cut from footage shot by cameramen who went forward with the infantry.
The displaced-persons camps between 1945 and 1948, and the founding of Israel seen from inside them.
Marcel Ophuls spends four and a half hours on the Butcher of Lyon and the people who protected him.
Five Hungarian Jews return to the places they were deported from in 1944; Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation.
The people who knew her and hid her, including Miep Gies, filmed while they were still alive to speak.
The Allied advance from Normandy to the Elbe, assembled by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin from a thousand cameramen.
John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.
A year aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, filmed in colour by the crew themselves.
The ten thousand children Britain took in before the war, told by the children themselves at eighty.
Nine and a half hours of witnesses, no archive footage; Lanzmann's Holocaust.
Thirty-two minutes on Auschwitz made in 1956; Resnais' film every French school shows.
The Marines from Guadalcanal to Okinawa; the harder companion to Band of Brothers.
A lie in 1935 and the Dunkirk beach in one five-minute take.
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