Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

Race tracks are places of longing. But only the Nürburgring in the Eifel is truly spectacular and id...
Interviews with two veteran survivors of the pivotal battle of WWII

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

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

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, includin...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

Did you know that the first cowboys were black? Using magnificent archives and testimonies from hist...

František Fajtl and Filip Jánský were among the few Czechoslovak airmen who actively fought on all m...

Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration ca...