Helena Bonham Carter shines light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.
Manfred Gans joins an elite, secret unit of Jewish commandos to take on the Nazis with advanced fighting and counterintelligence... more
Emily Anderson led a double life. This shy musicologist from Galway was also a top codebreaker for the British, whose... more
A 24-year-old Belgian woman masterminds an escape line, spanning eight hundred miles of Nazi-occupied territory, stretching from Belgium to Spain.... more
Charles Drew, an American doctor, led the creation and use of blood banks, saving countless lives both in war and... more
A young circus performer from a traveling family in France breaks out of an internment camp and dedicates himself to... more
After contracting Hansen’s Disease, then known as leprosy, Josefina Guerrero makes a remarkable decision. She becomes a spy for the... more
A group of Native American soldiers use their language to devise a secret code for the Allies. Can the Navajo... more
Thrill-seeker Christine Granville offers to ski across enemy lines and over the deadly Carpathian mountains, into Nazi-occupied Poland to gather... more
In Sierra Leone, navigator Johnny Smythe becomes one of the first West African airmen to join the Royal Air Force.... more
How did Ida and Louise Cook, two opera-loving sisters from England, help dozens of Jewish people escape Nazi Germany?Helena Bonham... more
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