PBS America (Freeview) Sunday

Examining the role ghettos played in the destruction of Jewish communities during the Holocaust through recently exhumed and translated diaries

Exploring the history of surgery from its rudimentary conception centuries ago up to the modern specialist procedures that take place today

Exploring the early experiments with ether and chloroform and what changed dramatically as a result of their use

Telling the story of the Second World War battle. In May 1941, 14,000 German paratroopers supported by nearly 1,000 aircraft descended upon the island of Crete

Examining the dangerous operation to evacuate off Crete's south coast that cost the lives of almost 1,000 British seamen and Allied soldiers

A look at the massacres that occurred from both sides after the German and Italian occupation that cost lives of German soldiers, Greek partisans and civilians

Examining the role ghettos played in the destruction of Jewish communities during the Holocaust through recently exhumed and translated diaries

The untold story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer who managed to infiltrate Auschwitz to create an information network with the help of resistance fighters within the death camp

Part one of two. Female participants in the Nazi regime, many of whom were active participants that were as brutal and merciless as their better-known, male counterparts

Part two of two. Female participants in the Nazi regime. Far from being mere witnesses or accomplices, many women played a role as important as it was deadly