The international success of the film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen made U-96 one of the most famous submarines in cinematic history. But the true story of one of Hitler's most fearsome U-boats and its crew goes far beyond fiction. For the first time, this documentary sheds light on the reality behind the fiction through exclusive interviews with the makers and actors of Das Boot, as well as the last survivors of the time. In doing so, this documentary explores how Hitler's propaganda images may have influenced the visual and narrative force of Das Boot.

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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military info...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

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This documentary tells the story of the making of Irving Berlin's Easter Parade.

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La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films ...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which th...

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...