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.

My grandfather fought alongside Pancho Villa, became Master Mason, was an elected official who repre...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his...

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...

On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty undergro...

Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to e...

Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelv...

A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy w...

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British for...

It is the winter of 1943. Somewhere in central Greece. A captain and a sergeant of the Greek army ar...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...

The movie tells the story of Franz, a Waffen-SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman ...

Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He ...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...