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 Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time.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.
When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put i...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Toge...
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room f...
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against ...
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The Genera...
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w...
In 1943, Joseph, a Jewish man, was arrested by the Germans in front of his 13-year-old daughter, Suz...
In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS....
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...
The story of the legendary battle through the eyes of Jedrek - a boy who went through the hell of th...
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed ...
Spring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat ...
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him i...