Seventy-three years after the monumental "The World at War" series debuted, a new documentary program aims to uncover new ...

The actor hosts a 20-part series on the History Channel that pulls off the seemingly impossible by offering a fresh ...

Tom Hanks is returning to World War II storytelling with a new HISTORY Channel docuseries called World War II with Tom Hanks.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the most crucial consequence of surrender at Dunkirk would have been not manpower and morale, but timing. Between June 1940 and the second half... Here’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "World War II with Tom Hanks" is set to premiere May 25. (History Channel/YouTube/Screenshot ...

There's no shortage of World War II documentaries. But every so often, a filmmaker finds a new doorway into a familiar ...

Introduction -- Into the factories -- New opportunities, new challenges -- Women's auxiliary services -- "Make do and mend" : women and the home front -- The secret war -- Appendix 1: Timeline -- ...

One particularly brutal event that occurred during World War II was the Wola Massacre. This massacre is deeply disturbing, ...

Explore 20 colorized photos from World War II, revealing historic moments, soldiers, and scenes in vivid detail.

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

PITTSFIELD — Joseph Coy was just 17 years old when he decided to leave Pittsfield High School for the battlefields of World War II, trading his cap and gown for a Navy uniform. In February 1944, just ...

War movies are known for being violent and brutally realistic -- it sort of comes with the territory; war isn't all sunshine and rainbows, after all. But some war movies like to be accessible to a ...