A Marine in the Pacific during WWII, part of the footage digitally restored to 4K resolution for "Apocalpyse '45." (Screenshot, "Apocalypse '45") Ittsei Nakagawa, a survivor of the Hiroshima ...

Screening of the eight-episode documentary Asia-Pacific War Crimes Trials starts on Aug 31.

Two new documentaries highlight the role of the Pacific Islands in World War II – a theatre of war the programme-makers say is often overlooked.

Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the formal Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

The United States celebrated the end of World War II with Victory in Japan Day on Aug. 14, 1945, exactly 75 years before the release of “Apocalypse ’45,” Erik Nelson’s examination of the ...

This film documents the experiences of 1st Marine Division veterans who fought in WWII. On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942, the famed 1st Marine Division — the oldest, largest and most ...

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. Last month, we mainly focused on the North Pacific and China; but with the end of those ...

Numerous documentaries have ventured to convey the immense sacrifices of WWII.

Veterans of the WWII Pacific theater are honored in new film and D.C. ceremony. WASHINGTON, March 11, 2010— -- Some who fought there called it the "forgotten theater" of World War II. But now ...

Director Nelson documented World War II aerial fighting over Germany in an earlier film, “The Cold Blue,” which drew upon footage that director William Wyler had shot for his 1944 documentary ...

In “Apocalypse ’45,” we see images of World War II — the last six months of it, when our forces were engaged in a grisly death-throes battle with the Japanese in the Pacific — that are ...