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.
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
In 25 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...
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
Guy Ben-Ner, one of Israel's foremost video artists, gained international recognition with a series ...
Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the histor...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY spec...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
When a young Alfonse Capone joins in with the Chicago mafia, he seeks to reform the ways in which th...
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.