The destruction of the traditional legal system is probably one of the lesser-known yet essential goals of the Nazi state. The aim was to establish the supremacy of the "people's community" over the individual by subjugating the judicial system. The documentary looks at the careers of four people who were actively involved or became victims.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

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

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and...

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...

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

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to as...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbule...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...