This short film explains what VE Day and VJ Day were, and the events that led to the end of the war. A collection of video and audio clips from the BBC archive, including news reports on the blitz ...

Following the defeat of France, Britain and the empire was left to fight Germany. To successfully invade Britain, Germany needed to control the skies over the English channel. This led to the ...

A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.