In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the “Jewish controlled media” and called for a return to a racially “pure” America. The keynote speaker was Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund. Nazi Town, USA tells the largely unknown story of the Bund, which had scores of chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country and represented what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. Its melding of patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism raised thorny issues that we continue to wrestle with today.

During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba...

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

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...

Nazi propaganda film “exposes” the United States and its plans against Germany and the German people...
The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Rooseve...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

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Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a si...

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A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Camp...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...