Irena Sendler helped save 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Born and raised in Poland, Sendler — a Catholic social worker — was 29 years old when the war began. Granted unique access due to her job in the...

Irena Sendler helped save 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Born and raised in Poland, Sendler — a Catholic social worker — was 29 years old when the war began. Granted unique access due to her job in the welfare...

Winston Churchill was much more than the British Bulldog who held Britain together during the Blitz. He was also a prisoner of war with a bounty on his head who secretly sold paintings from a Paris art gallery - and that's just the...

In 1950's the war between North Korea and South Korea displaced 100,000 orphans. The North Korean government decided to send some of them to Eastern Europe. On today's episode of Kult America we are visiting some of those orphanages...

(August 23, 1939) One week before the onset of World War II, the Third Reich signs a secret non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. Intending to eliminate the independent Polish state, (September 1, 1939) the Nazis invade Poland from...

Este programa de video de accion en vivo es sobre la palabra Segunda Guerra Mundial. El programa esta disenado para reforzar y apoyar la comprension y retencion del estudiante de la palabra Segunda Guerra Mundial mediante el uso de...

(August 23, 1939) One week before the onset of World War II, the Third Reich signs a secret non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. Intending to eliminate the independent Polish state, (September 1, 1939) the Nazis invade Poland from...

Growing up in the US I had an impression that Polish people were everywhere and that Polish culture is well known among my fellow Americans. On this episode of Kult America I've decided to check what people of the US really know about...

Last September I received a phone call informing that my estranged father had passed away. At his funeral in Chicago a family member presented me an old photo album, but she was unsure of who it once belonged to, though they suspected...

On today's episode of Kult America I will take you to an abandoned nuclear bunker. Built as a shelter during the Cold War, this place was destroyed by time and people, but it still has this unbelievable, dark atmosphere that gives you...

The rise of Hitler

The rise of Hitler

Event: January 1942. The first American soldiers arrive in Europe to fight in WWII and those soldiers leave jobs that must be filled by female workers. Story: Rosie the Riveter embodies the work the woman can do to support their...

In August of 1945, we as a species entered into a new age. In many ways we achieved technological miracles orders of magnitude greater than our ancestors could ever imagine. We are also now living in the only period in our species’...

The period between WWI and WWII brought about major political changes in Italy, and yet it's fairly uncommon to discuss what actually went on in Benito Mussolini's fascist state during those years. Mussolini implemented policies and...

This live-action video program is about the term World War 2. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term World War 2 through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...