Watch d-day 80: we were there soap2day. Eighty years on, the BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from the UK's D-Day veterans – some now more than 100 years of age. Rachel Burden traces their stories in Normandy and hears memories of the massive beach invasion and the battles that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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Survivors tell the story of the Babyn Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
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Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most misunderstood events in history. Contrary to the...
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13 years ago, director Bob Entrop made the film A piece of blue in the sky, the first film in the Netherlands that depicted the murder of almost 1...
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The gripping story of Britain's most extraordinary double agent; Eddie Chapman. Chapman duped the Germans so successfully he was awarded their...
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Richard Overton, at 109 years old, is the oldest living WWII veteran. He lives alone, still drives, and has a 91 year old girlfriend named Ms. Love....
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An epic family saga told by the women around the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends...
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Henry Browne, an African American farmer, and his family are profiled in this film. The important job of a farmer during times of war is highlighted,...
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A profile of the more than 2,000 Belgian refugees in the fishing port of Brixham.
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Located nearly 80 kilometres north of Berlin, Germany, the former municipality of Ravensbrück was home to a prison between 1939 and 1945 that...