20th century wartime epics documentaries

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100 Documentaries on 20th‑Century Wartime Epics

World War I

  • The Great War (PBS)

  • Apocalypse: World War I

  • The First World War (2003)

  • WWI in Color

  • The Somme

  • Gallipoli

  • Lawrence of Arabia: The True Story

  • The Last Day of World War I

  • The Battle of Verdun

  • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire

Interwar & Rise of Totalitarianism

  • The Rise of the Nazis

  • Hitler: A Career

  • Stalin: Inside the Terror

  • The Spanish Civil War

  • The Russian Civil War

  • Mussolini: The Father of Fascism

  • The Road to World War II

  • The Fall of the Romanovs

  • The Last Czars

  • The Great Depression and the Rise of Extremism

World War II (Global)

  • The World at War

  • WWII in HD

  • Apocalypse: World War II

  • World War II: Behind Closed Doors

  • The War (Ken Burns)

  • The Greatest Events of WWII in Colour

  • The Second World War in Colour

  • Secrets of the Dead: The Real Pearl Harbor

  • The Battle of Britain

  • The Battle of Midway

WWII: Europe

  • Hitler’s Circle of Evil

  • Nazi Megastructures

  • The Nazi Plan

  • The Sorrow and the Pity

  • Shoah

  • Final Account

  • The Rape of Europa

  • The Fall of Berlin

  • The Siege of Leningrad

  • The Battle of Stalingrad

WWII: Pacific

  • The Pacific War in Color

  • The Battle of Okinawa

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

  • The Road to Tokyo

  • The Fall of Singapore

  • The Burma Campaign

  • The Battle of the Coral Sea

  • The Kamikaze

  • The Atomic Bomb

  • White Light/Black Rain

Cold War Conflicts

  • The Cold War (CNN)

  • Command and Control

  • Trinity and Beyond

  • The Bomb (PBS)

  • The Korean War in Color

  • Korea: The Never‑Ending War

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • The Space Race

  • The Berlin Wall

  • The Soviet‑Afghan War

Vietnam War

  • The Vietnam War (Ken Burns)

  • Vietnam in HD

  • The Fog of War

  • Hearts and Minds

  • Last Days in Vietnam

  • The Battle of Khe Sanh

  • The Tet Offensive

  • The Fall of Saigon

  • The Ho Chi Minh Trail

  • The Real Apocalypse Now

Late 20th‑Century Conflicts

  • The Falklands War: The Untold Story

  • The Gulf War

  • Desert Storm: The Ultimate War

  • The Yugoslav Wars

  • The Rwandan Genocide

  • The Iran‑Iraq War

  • Lebanon: The Soldier’s Story

  • The First Intifada

  • The Troubles

  • The Rise of Modern Terrorism

Modern Warfare & Aftermath

  • Restrepo

  • Korengal

  • The War Tapes

  • The Battle for Marjah

  • The Hornet’s Nest

  • No End in Sight

  • Dirty Wars

  • The Longest War

  • The Tillman Story

  • Only the Dead

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