For all its talk of racial, spiritual, and physical purity, the self-anointed “Master Race” harbored a secret…theirs was an axis of drug addicts. This two-hour special explores the origin, impact, and lasting effects of the state-sponsored drug use that helped build—and eventually burned—the Third Reich. Incredible new sources of information, including a detailed journal maintained by Hitler’s personal physician, reveal the extent of not just his, but the entire Nazi Party’s reliance on drugs to power their war effort.

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on ...

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

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

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

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with grea...

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...

Eva Braun. Hitler’s mistress and eventual wife. A woman with a passion for photography and film, doc...

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a ...

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation ...

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory...

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of ...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...