A focused factual route on aerial warfare, the worldwide conflict and the memory of the Nazi camps.
Archival footage is evidence requiring context, not an unmediated window into the past. These films were produced decades after many events; they connect the conflict to later debates about violence and responsibility.
1937 → 1945
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1937 → 1945
Trace how the aerial attack on civilians evolved before and during the war.
The film links the Spanish Civil War with the later strategic bombing of cities. The story crosses 1937–45 and is thematic rather than a single dated event.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
1939 → 1945
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1939 → 1945
Establish a broad documentary map of the conflict and its consequences.
This interview- and archive-led series provides retrospectives across 1939–45; it is not one historical episode and is best approached as an overarching framework.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
1940 → 1945
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1940 → 1945
Confront the camps and the ethics of remembering crimes after liberation.
Alain Resnais's 1956 documentary uses postwar footage and archival images. It is about the Nazi concentration-camp system and its memory, not a film set exclusively in 1940.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
In 1945, the war ended but occupation, reconstruction, displacement, decolonization and prosecution continued. The rivalry between the Soviet Union and Western powers reshaped international life. Continue with the Cold War journey; this is a future Watch Next editorial link, not yet an active app feature.