Tried by fire: Two part epic that shows the role of the 84th Infantry Division in the breakthrough of the former impregnable Siegfried Line and the dramatic conflict known as the Battle of the Bulge. Also includes the crossing of the Roer and Rhine rivers. Bridge at Remagen: Watch the events surrounding the capture of the important bridge at Remagen by American troops March 7, 1945. This gave the U.S. troops the first bridgehead on the Rhine River....

Two-part documentary exploring the rise and fall of the Third Reich through contemporaneous amateur footage filmed by German civilians and soldiers, and first-hand accounts culled from German diaries, journals, and letters.

Divide and conquer: Recounts the successive defeats of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France by the seemingly invincible German army, as seen in dramatic footage from both sides of the battle. The Battle of Britain: Exclusive Army footage and

In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.

Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany,...

Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance.

Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.