In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...

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

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

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...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 194...

In May 1974, the Israeli Air Force carried out an extermination operation against the Palestinian re...

A reckoning of Nazi Germany’s planned execution of its own citizens with physical and mental disabil...

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

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...