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.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

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

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the thir...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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...

1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.