The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
German training film from World War II.
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World W...
Documentary about the life and works of legendary Austrian actor Karl Merkatz.
An examination of the how television news in the US has covered war from Vietnam to the present day
Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary ...
Discovering Paris under the German occupation through the story of an SS soldier and more generally ...
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second c...
Captain Muller struggles to survive fighting overwhelming Russian forces. Wounded, he is sent to Nor...
Between 1942 and 1944 some 24,916 Jews were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. The roundups and dep...
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are ...
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their miss...
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, the...
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they c...
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American...
The film is set in a signalman's house during the German occupation. When it turns out that the moth...
The film documents the ascent of Monga ma loba, the mountain of the gods in the Cameroon Mountains, ...
A visit to the Bantu in Cameroon and the indigenous town of Kumbo. The living and working conditions...