Launched in 1944, the USS Missouri (or "Mighty Mo") is best known for hosting a meeting between Allied and Axis representatives that led to Japan's surrender and the end of World War II.

Many of them were severely destroyed after the Nazi occupation. This is what they look like now. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to ...

The World War 2 movie was set in August 1944 and followed French Resistance fighter Paul Labiche, played by Burt Lancaster, taking on Paul Scofield’s German Colonel Franz von Waldheim.

A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.

Play Supremacy 1914 for free. Following Supremacy 1914, Call of War: World War II gives players a similar formula but applies it to the Second World War rather than the First. There’s a list of ...

To parse the year’s best cinema, IndieWire assembled an elite group of critics around the world who spent the year watching ...

Nicola Coughlan is officially a certified gay icon, and not just because she’s about to star ... Ncuti Gatwa and Nicola Coughlan in Doctor Who’s Christmas special “Joy To The World”. (BBC) “So it was ...

Dozens of men who abused Gisèle Pelicot were convicted, including the man who invited them to do so: her husband of 50 years. She wanted the public trial to show rape victims they were not alone ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in ...

China is adding yet another superlative to its aviation roster: the world’s largest airport on a man-made island. Currently under construction off the country’s northeast coast, the Dalian ...