Wartime sweetheart Vera Lynn presents this documentary which sets archive footage and newsreel film from World War Two to the popular sounds of the day. Artists featured include Flanagan and Allen, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Bing Crosby, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Andrews Sisters and the Mills Brothers.

It’s long been known that German soldiers used a methamphetamine called Pervitin during WWII. But have tales of Nazis on speed obscured the massive use of stimulants by British and American troops? Did total war unleash the world’s first pharmacological arms race? And in the face of industrial slaughter, what role did drugs play in combat? Historian James Holland is on a quest to dig deeper and unearth the truth behind 'World War Speed'.

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Who really did win the war of 1812? This war has been called a lot of names - a strange war, a senseless war, even a silly war. But it changed the course of our history and helped create Canada It is an epic conflict that determined the fate of a continent and the tragic destiny of its first peoples.

Thomas Nast's Santa became the image Americans knew when they needed something to believe in most in the midst of the Civil War. Narrated by Brian Kilmeade.

Daring WW2 missions that changed the course of the war.

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

An affecting 'talking heads' documentary which traces the stories of four Israelis: Yehuda Poliker and Ya'acov Gilad, two rock musicians bound together not only by their music, but also by their common experience as the offspring of survivors of the Nazi extermination camps; and those survivors themselves - Yehuda's father Jacko (from Salonika, taken to Treblinka), and Yaakov's mother Halina (from Warsaw, taken to Auschwitz as a teenager).

While the war raged on, Henry Kissinger, national security advisor to President Nixon, and Lê Duc Tho, member of Vietnam's Politburo, held secret meetings in France.

这部电影的主角是前披头士乐队成员约翰·列侬和罗伊·金尼尔，他们都是不幸入伍的士兵，在“认真的古德博迪”中尉的无能指挥下。这个故事主要是在古德博迪中尉的倒叙中展开的。古德博迪中尉出身较低，受教育程度也较低，因此他是一名指挥军队最差部队之一的差劲军官。