Join Ann Curry for dramatic reunions between people separated and thrown together by WWII. A Japanese-American woman sent to a confinement camp hopes to find a childhood friend, and a survivor from a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai searches for the daughter of the couple who befriended him as a boy.

From Catherine the Great up until the last Russian Empress, all of the Russian Tsarinas were, in fact, German. What brought them to Petrograd were marriages arranged in the royal courts of Europe. Once wed, the young bride was firmly in the straitjacket of the Russian monarchy. An individual personality and identity was denied, the sole purpose of her being became her role as custodian of centuries of Russian tradition and as figurehead to the Russian...

In the chaos of battle, men claim to have witnessed some of history's strangest sightings. From unexplained sea monsters spotted by U-boat captains to some of the weirdest weaponry of the wars, each episode in this series will examine these stories in fascinating detail. Despite decades of research by historians and experts, many accounts still remain a complete mystery. Using declassified documents and military historians, World War Weird attempts...

Hitler asked his industrial quarter for armaments to reinforce his plan for a mighty new German Army. The finest planes, artillery and tanks and even submarines and battleships were churned out to blitz through most of Europe and the Atlantic. His designers never stopped working.

A guide to human history through its most audacious power grabs. From Julius Caesar to Napoleon, from Mussolini to the strongmen of the present day, we see how the world we know has been shaped by those who dream big.

Gates explores the impact of the Atlantic trading world, giving rise to powerful new kingdoms, but also the transatlantic slave trade. Learn of the revolutionary movements of the 18th & early 19th centuries, including the advent of Sokoto Caliphate.

THE WAR, a new seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.Six years in the making, this epic 14-hour film focuses on the stories of citizens from four geographically distributed American towns...

LAND AND FREEDOM looks at differing strains within the anarchist movement during the peak of its popularity – when it seemed, for a time, that the dream of anarchist revolution might come to pass.

Were the Earps really the unblemished heroes of dime novels and old movies, or were they thugs who happened to wear badges? Discover this and more in part three of our journey through The Lawmen of the Old West.