Midway (1976) opens like a history lecture and earns it. The battle it covers, four days in June 1942, reshaped the entire ...

Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the ...

In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II.

Spanning from 1941 to 1945, the Pacific War was a vast and brutal theater of World War II, pitting Allied forces against Imperial Japan across oceans and islands. We chart its course from the surprise ...

James Badge Dale in HBO's The Pacific. Image via HBO. Lade Omotade is a News and Features Author at Collider, covering everything from casting announcements and streaming trends to behind-the-scenes ...

In Papua, U.S. Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger and members of his staff look over newly taken ground in the Triangle area, 1942. Credit: Centre for Military History Our popular memory of World ...

Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

The Battle of Midway is one of the most famous battles of World War II and one of the most famous naval battles in history. It was a turning point in the Pacific War between America and Japan. Most ...

During World War II, Japan’s fleet was large and qualitatively peerless, but unsupported by a broader defense-industrial base. The United States finds itself in the same position today. Talk about an ...