This film is based on the best-selling book "Scholars of Mayhem" by Daniel C. Guiet and Timothy K. Smith. It begins with two Top Secret WWII organizations, American and British, responsible for silent, unseen, highly classified missions of critical importance to defeating the Nazis in France in J...

Two American 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles) medics were operating an aid station in a church in Normandy, France, during the opening hours of D-Day. Outside, a savage battle raged all around them. The church changed hands several times, with American and German forces overrunning the village o...

Narrated by Jeff Daniels.

Robert Hébras stepped carefully through the crumbled ruins of the village where he once lived. “There’s the school bell still hanging up there, reminding me how I was always late,” said the former mechanic.

Almost 80 years after this idyllic rural village near Limoges...

First-hand accounts from the veterans of WWII.

Narrated by Jason Beghe. The story of the World War II massacre of 84 American soldiers in the Malmedy, Belgium area on December 17, 1944, during the opening days of the famous “Battle of the Bulge.” On December 17, 1944, after a short battle, 150 American GI’s were taken prisoner just outside th...

During overseas active duty beginning in June 1943 Bruce Sundlun, a Jewish-American college student, served as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in the England-based 384th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force at Grafton-Underwood Air Base. Sundlun’s plane, the Damn Yankee, was shot down over Nazi-occupi...

Narrated by country music superstar Darius Rucker. We return to Ramitelli airfield in Italy to chronicle the legacy of World War II's famed Tuskegee Airmen, African American pilots who helped break stereotypes and helped win World War II with their incredible fighter escorts of American bombers.

Holocaust Survivor Israel Arbeiter Returns to Auschwitz in this short film from the World War II Foundation. Arbeiter’s parents and younger brother were killed at the Treblinka Death Camp. Izzy became a slave laborer for the Germans and spent 6 months at Auschwitz. There he saw unspeakable horror...

They were the “other” Band of Brothers. A Company of Heroes features interviews with many of the men not focused on in the book “Band of Brothers” by Stephen Ambrose or in the television mini-series by the same name. Never before seen video and photos are also included in this film. Narrated by T...

For Alaskan teenager Henry De Hoop, social platforms such as Facebook have proven to be an incredible resource in sharing his grandfather, James Schmidt’s story, with a global audience.
Jim Schmidt, like 16 million others of his generation, served in World War II.
But the war journey of Henry’s g...

Narrated by Greg Kinnear.
Germany’s most famous commander of World War II, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, had one fatal flaw: He always spoke his mind to Adolf Hitler. Rommel would pay for voicing the truth to his Fuhrer with his life.
An earlier hero of World War I, Erwin Rommel was many things. A ...

Narrated by Dan Aykroyd. From the Holocaust to the dropping of the Atomic bombs, this film tells the story of an individual who owned the largest private collection of World War II artifacts in the world. Over 50 interviews with veterans and survivors of the war help tell the story of the meaning...

It was 1944 in the small Luxembourg Town of Wiltz. The war had taken a heavy toll as Wiltz had been a center of resistance and suffered brutal reprisals. People were shot in the town square and men were forced into the German army or sent to concentration camps. The German occupation lasted four ...

We follow 82nd Airborne veteran James “Maggie” Megellas from Wisconsin to Europe where he fought in some of the most savage battles of World War II. “Maggie” is the most decorated officer in the history of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. Narrated by Tom Kane.

Re-trace the steps of Holocaust survivor Israel Arbeiter as he returns to Poland and Germany for the final time to look for items buried in 1939 in the basement of his old home in Plock, Poland as the German army advanced.

The fighting in the mountains of Italy in WWII was so horrendous that the famed American 10th Mountain Division, customarily found on skis, was called into the fight. One of those soldiers in the 10th Mountain Division was Bob Dole, later a famed Senator from Kansas and Presidential candidate. Do...