The most extensively documented event in human history. From the Pacific theater to the European front, explore the total mobilization of the camera in an age of total war.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Second World War (1939-1945): Introduction |
| Pre-War propaganda warning of imminent danger |
| 2 | John Heartfield: Political photomontages |
| 3 | AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung |
| 4 | Marinus: Anti-Nazi political photomontage in France |
| Propaganda and public information |
| 5 | Propaganda in Nazi Germany |
| Propaganda and public information |
| 6 | Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler |
| 7 | Adolf Hitler - Nazi propaganda series |
| 8 | Heinrich Hoffmann (Editor) & Josef Bürckel (Foreword): Hitler holt die Saar heim (1938) |
| 9 | A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) |
| 10 | Winston Churchill - Wanted for incitement to Murder |
| 11 | Teresa Zarnower: Obrona Warszawy - The defense of Warsaw (1942-1945) |
| 12 | American posters from the Second World War (1939-1945): |
| 13 | United States. Office of Facts and Figures.: This man is your friend - He fights for Freedom (1942) |
| 14 | Aspects of photography revealed in movies before, during, and after the Second World War |
| The home front |
| 15 | Second World War (1939-1945): The home front |
| The war in Europe |
| 16 | The Katyn Forest Massacre |
| 17 | Second World War (1939-1945): Soviet photographers |
| 18 | Margaret Bourke-White: Purple Heart Valley |
| 19 | Robert Capa: D-Day, Normandy (6 June 1944) |
| 20 | Robert Capa: Second World War Wire photos |
| 21 | Liberation of Paris (1944) |
| 22 | Nazi suicides in Leipzig, Germany (1945) |
| 23 | Fascism and the Second World War in Hungary |
| 24 | Second World War (1939-1945): Photography and resistance in lands under Nazi occupation |
| 25 | Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945) |
| 26 | Richard Peter Sr.: Dresden. Eine Kamera klagt an. Ein historisches Dokument (1949) |
| The Holocaust |
| 27 | Introduction to the Holocaust |
| 28 | The Holocaust: Photographing inside the ghettos |
| 29 | The Holocaust: Death camps |
| 30 | The Holocaust: Children |
| 31 | The Holocaust: Photographers who died |
| Internment camps |
| 32 | Internment camps in the USA during the Second World War |
| The War in the Pacific |
| 33 | Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 |
| 34 | Second World War (1939-1945): The War in the Pacific |
| 35 | Naval Aviation Photographic Unit |
| 36 | W. Eugene Smith: War in the Pacific |
| 37 | SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) |
| 38 | Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) |
| Hiroshima (6 August 1945) |
| 39 | War: Atomic explosions: Hiroshima |
| Nagasaki (9 August 1945) |
| 40 | War: Atomic explosions: Nagasaki |
| Aerial photography |
| 41 | Second World War (1939-1945): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography |
| 42 | Harold E. Edgerton: Night experiments at Stonehenge |
| Memory |
| 43 | D'Ora: Slaughterhouse series (1948-1958) |
| 44 | James Fee: The Peleliu Project |
| 45 | The legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary photography |
