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Hanks also took centre stage in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies, set amidst the Cold War. The plot ...

His 1998 epic war film, Saving Private Ryan, is set in 1944 in Normandy during the Second World War and follows a group of ...

Hearst Networks will distribute World War II with Tom Hanks to audiences on Sky HISTORY in the U.K. and The HISTORY Channel ...

The epic multi-part exploration of World War II will be hosted and narrated by Tom Hanks. The series will air on Sky HISTORY ...

Sky History in the UK and Hearst Network’s The History Channel across EMEA are getting a 20-part documentary series about the ...

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even the United States to be detained and await their trial. In March 1945, one ...

Two friends, connected by family histories on opposite sides of World War II, set out to explore the lasting trauma of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. While Japanese hibakusha (survivors) endure ...

A focus on certain types of power foods helped the nation survive a blockade. A British shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a homemaker's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon during ...

We are often taught that the British Empire was the “Arsenal of Democracy.” We are rarely told who paid for it. During World War II, Britain ran out of money. To keep fighting, they didn’t just borrow ...