LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II ... Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright ...

Netflix's 'Six Triple Eight' tells the heroic true story of the only all-Black, all-female battalion in WWII, led by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington.

Sisters in Science” tells of the rise of female scientists in 1930s Germany – some of whom were Jewish – whose careers were ended by Adolf Hitler.

Excuse me, but there’s something wrong here,’ she said. ‘I’m standing and you’re sitting.’ When the men looked up, my mother pointed to her

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. The disaster also created one of World War II’s most enduring symbols of valor, service,

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.

Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at age 104. Her death was confirmed by the IOC and by Harvey Mudd College,

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social progress.

Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British intelligence documents.

Elizebeth Friedman, a pioneering cryptographer, played a crucial role in U.S. intelligence during World War II. She cracked three Enigma machines, transformed cryptographic units, and made key contributions to the OSS and Coast Guard.

Hidden Spies of World War II” is a collection of vignettes of 52 courageous women, most of whom spied for the Allies in German-occupied France. They were part of a group created by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and known as the Special Operations Executive’s F Section.

Race relations and the fight for ethnic equality have been an ongoing pursuit since the birth of the nation. Every facet of society has an integration story, including the military. The Fighting