A captivating dive into the global conflict that shaped the world: WWII.

On the night of 9-10 November 1938, a terrible wave of anti-Semitic violence broke out across the Reich. Euphemistically, it was known as "Kristallnacht". Yet it was the first pogrom in German history, and a prelude to the Shoah...

With the help of historians and archive footage, hour by hour, follow the event that marked a turning point in the history of Nazi Germany.

1919. After a four-year journey to the edge of hell, the French are alive again. Everyone enters the 20th century with confidence and dreams of eternal peace. No one suspects that the "Roaring Twenties" will only be an enchanted, short-lived interlude. With fear, the French see the shadow of war reappear.

Thanks to newly disclosed archives (eye witness accounts, personal notebooks, telegrams and reports), this documentary unveils how foreign diplomats in Berlin tried to alert the world early on the rise and increasing dangers of Nazi Germany.

100 days. That’s what it took for the Allies to liberate Normandy, to break through the German line, and to begin the liberation of the continent. 100 days that made history.

A fresh look at one of the most devastating encounters of military history: WWII's battle for the Eastern Front.

The gripping account of a forgotten conflict, from a new perspective.

Throughout World War II, the submarine "Rubis" and the submersibles of the "Free French Naval Forces" scoured the Atlantic to neutralize the German Navy. Discover these forgotten ships that made possible the liberation of France.

A previously undiscovered photo album reveals unknown details about the radicalization of young men and their terrible contribution to the Nazi concentration camps.

They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. Historical colorized archives and a handful of survivors tell us this story.

Through colour archives and eyewitness accounts by former Hitler Youth, the film grasps how a totalitarian regime managed to turn children into soldiers.

Discover for the first time the full story of the Third Reich’s deadliest paramilitary organization told by the men who served in it.

A submersion in the final year of the war, through the chaos triggered by Hitler’s elite SS tank division: "Das Reich". Using full HD colorized footage, the film retraces the last missions and the crimes of Hitler’s death squad.

A chilling insight on the vital role German women played in the Nazi movement.

This documentary series takes us to the heart of the Nazi killing system and throws fresh light on the origins and workings of Adolf Hitler’s project.

The documentary sheds light on the Nazi miracle weapons, the new and powerful arming strategy commanded by Hitler. The V2 rockets, the titanic Dora cannon or the 200-ton Mauss tank reveal the deadly, technical threat of modern wars.

Striking archive footage lift the lid on the story of "Operation Torch", the first successful strike against the Nazis by the Allies in North Africa, but remains largely forgotten.

After the defeat of France in June 1940, a new struggle began. It pitted the French who had chosen to resist the Germans against those who had decided to collaborate.

Through records left by our four main characters Henri Fresnay, Christian Pineau, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade and Roger Pannequin, this documentary goes back to the story of the French dissidents who, in their own personal way, embody the fight for freedom during WWII.

Using colorized archive images, some of which have never before been seen, the film immerses viewers into the last hours of WWII.

From the D-Day landings on the 6 June 1944 to the surrender of the Third Reich on 8 May 1945, why did it take 353 days to bring down the Nazi regime?

Through the testimony of a survivor, this film lifts the lid on the striking and little-known story of how the Allied designed a "de-Nazification" process and training in democracy to turn a generation of kids out of nazism.

70 years later, thanks to 5 photographs, discover what truly happened that day, under the Hiroshima cloud.

After WWII, countless Nazi criminals managed to flee Europe, thanks to an escape system organized by the Vatican. We penetrate a dark, intricate network to understand how and why did the Church participated in this massive escape.

Featuring unique, colorized archives, this two-part documentary draws France’s popular history from the aftermath of D-Day to the end of the Algerian war.

In the five years that separated the end of World War II from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of apocalypse.

Blending precious archive footage and interviews with leading historians, this film examines how the Soviet Empire managed to win WWII, through the economical prism.

From the Yalta Conference in 1945 up to 1953, discover a new world order designed by three men, in search of a lasting peace, that would inevitably lead to the Cold War.

How 85 million Europeans experienced the radical sovietization of eastern and central Europe.

The film follows the exile of Nazis in the Middle East after WWII and ex-plores the origins of the connection between national-socialism and the Arab world under the Third Reich.

Jewish historians and thinkers dwell on the importance of Eichmann’s trial in Israël’s history and on the violent debates provoked by his death sentence in the 60’s in the intellectual and political sphere.

The Tokyo trial, which took 960 days to reach a verdict, was a complete fiasco. Judging Japan recounts this historic event through the dilemmas, conflicts and arguments of the judges to reveal the long-hidden truth of this trial.

An original look at the Nüremberg trial through the diaries of Leon Goldensohn.

For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the beginning of the 21th Century. Decades of investigations, setbacks, trials and dramas.

They come from all over Europe. There are 46 of them. All are Jewish. All have a number tattooed on their forearm. All were deported to Auschwitz. For the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, they tell us their story.

Seventy years after Auschwitz’s liberation, we have not finished accounting for the destruction of Europe’s Jews. One question remains today: not why, but how was the Shoah possible?

80 years after the events, this film lifts the veil on the greatest mass-arrest of Jews ever carried out on French soil, in the light of the most recent historiography.

World War II in Europe ended on the 8th of May 1945. For the Jews of Europe, the suffering, the dying, and the grief continued, and still continues, to this very day.

Delve into the hell women went through during WWII, thanks to the voice of survivors and historians, 3D models and reconstructions. An inside look at a camp for women that has been overlooked much of the time.

Known as a full-scale laboratory for Nazi doctors, the Natzweiler-Struthof camp has been erased from historical memory. What really went on in this hidden place? The last survivors shed light on this dark chapter of history.

One man has taken on a unique challenge: tracking down and performing all the pieces of music written in the concentration camps by men and women who used music as an act of resistance.

1942. Almost 80,000 French Jews are arrested, following the orders of Adolf Hitler and Vichy. From the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup to Auschwitz, thanks to the most recent historiography and reenactment, plunge into the making of the Holocaust.

This documentary reveals the courage of rebellious prisoners of war, confined at the disciplinary camp known as Rava-Ruska, and witnesses of the genocide of Jews from Ukraine and Poland that began in 1942.

On April 6th, 1944, 44 children between 4 and 16 years old were arrested in Izieu by the Gestapo under the authority of Klaus Barbie. None of them came back.

A poignant documentary on the terrible journey of the ghost train, one of the last convoys of deportees of the Second World War.

In 2025, Spain will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of Franco's dictatorship. El Caudillo died on November 20, 1975, after 39 years as head of state. An incredible longevity, a nightmare from which the now democratic Spain still bears the scars.

100 years after Mussolini’s rise to power, thanks to official archives, amateur footage, together with testimonies of those who lived under the Mussolini Regime, this film explores the mechanisms of Fascist power, the cult of violence, and state political repression, steering Italy into disaster.

From 1940 to 45, Hitler and Churchill thought of nothing else but how to destroy each other. This film tells the story of this clash of the giants from their common experience in the trenches of the First World War until the end of World War II.

We span the century as seen from behind the scenes of an exceptional itinerary in order to capture the true dimension of one of the greatest European political figures: Churchill.

What if the D-Day landings were only possible thanks to a chess player who cracked the encoded communications of the German army?

For French people, Simone Veil is one of the most popular heroines in recent history. For women, she is a symbol of liberty and bravery. This film goes behind the public life of the former health minister and women’s rights campaigner to explore what drove her political dedication and gave meaning to her life.

Between 1939 and 1945, a handful of amateur filmmakers filmed their daily lives in Normandy. By bringing these exceptional archives out of oblivion, this documentary tells the story of war through a new lens, as close to those who lived through it.

Through the foolproof love story between a Russian Jewess and an Italian officer, and through rare and intimate archives (photo albums, letters), this documentary lifts the lid on a little-known episode of WWII: the occupation in France and the protection of Jews in the Alps.

They broke the rules and chose to live their passion against all odds. Revisit WWII through the passionate yet forbidden love stories of men and women who were supposed to be enemies.

The true story of French vineyards during the Nazi occupation.

Blending rare archive footage and interviews with leading historians, this film examines the rise and fall of the Nazi regime through its economic system.

What role did animals play during WWII? The little known story of millions of animals - dogs, horses, elephants and pigeons - who contributed to the war effort on the battlefield and behind the front.

How were the law and justice perverted to serve Nazi ideology?

June 23, 1940: Hitler makes a sightseeing trip to Paris to find inspiration for a project: Germania, the future world capital, supposed to surpass Paris. A close-up look at what’s behind Hitler’s fascination for the City of Lights.

The complex relations between Hitler and women during the third Reich.

It was a strange affair, full of love, lust and despair... That of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, his mistress from 1932 to their double suicide in Hitler's Berlin bunker, that fateful day in April 1945.

He made tons of enemies and was the target of more than 40 assassination attempts. Yet, he survived them all without a scratch. Discover Hitler’s surprising strategies to keep his relentless fears at bay.

More than 70 years after the end of the world’s deadliest war, grey areas still remain. Thanks to colorized archive footage, testimonies of survivors, and interviews of historians, this documentary series sheds the light on stories previously untold.

Does Adolf Hitler have a direct filiation? His mother's disclosures and several evidences allowed Jean-Marie Loret to believe he was the dictator's son.

A documentary on the Nazis’ secret breeding programme called Lebensborn, and how the surviving children try to rebuild their lives without knowing the truth or by hiding it.

What role did animals play in the Third Reich? How did they become one of the main components of Nazi racial ideology, and a justification for the horrors of the Holocaust?

How Hitler set up a veritable drug arms race, with the creation of a new substance supposed to give a feeling of invincibility: pervitin, otherwise known today as “crystal meth”.