The small but immensely powerful Admiral Graf Spee was the pride of Hitler's naval fleet. Restricted to a limited size due to the impositions of the Treaty of Versailles, this 'pocket battleship' was still a formidable fighting force. It was faster than a battleship, and had firepower far beyond other ships of this size. It was responsible for the sinking of as many as nine Allied merchant vessels in the autumn of 1939 in the space of three months. Then, late in the year, the ship was ambushed off the coast of Uruguay by British cruisers determined to sink her. Faced with insurmountable odds, the ship's captain, Hans Langsdorff, opted to destroy his own vessel rather than capitulate to the enemy. Hitler's Lost Battleship retraces the events leading up to the ship's destruction. With high-end re-enactments, CGI reconstructions, and surprising revelations from naval researchers - all add up to shed new light on this fascinating episode in wartime history.

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

13 years ago, director Bob Entrop made the film A piece of blue in the sky, the first film in the Ne...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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Highlights the increasingly important roles women occupy on the various fronts of WW II. In England,...

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...

A young filmmaker joins a tour of WWII veterans from the 29th Infantry through celebrations surround...

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Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...
This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-y...

Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of...

This story follows one man's quest to uncover the origins and reveal the mysteries of a possible Hol...

In January 1942, the order activating the 'US Air Forces in the British Isles' was announced. On 12t...

A deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasi...