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.
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin...
In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Capta...
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...
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
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...
This captivating documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the architect of the atomic bomb, explores hi...
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Re...
Fredrik isn’t the bravest of men, but now he is faced with a great responsibility and an enormous ta...
After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fi...
This timely, bold set of one-on-one interviews presents two of the most venerable figures from the A...