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 Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time.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 a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
During World War II, spy Wu Lai-sheung is instructed by her superior Fan Yeung-shan to murder spy nu...
The dramatic story of the life of Slovak boatmen on the Danube during World War II is depicted throu...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

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.