This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-year-old boy became a high-ranking member of the Hitler youth movement during World War II. The story is told in his own words. This film originally aired as part of the "America Undercover" series on HBO.
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of conce...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

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

Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five childr...

Created as a companion documentary to the film "Valkyrie," this documentary details the true story b...

The Battle of Peleliu was fought on the lovely Pacific island of that name by Japanese and American ...

A documentary covering the actions of the 6th Marine Division on Okinawa during WWII.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

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

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

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...

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant ...

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

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

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