This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare. This series features captured German and Russian film footage, much of which has never been seen before. For decades the Cold War prevented us from looking closely at what really happened between the Russians and the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. More than a struggle between nations, it pitted maniacal tyrant against maniacal tyrant, evil ideology against evil ideology. The lives of tens of millions of human beings were consumed by its raging hatreds and appalling indignities. One in every ten Russians died. One in every four Poles died. Whole divisions of Italians, Romanians, Hungarians disappeared with barely a trace. An average of 17,800 people died on every single day and this, the war on the Russian German Front, lasted for 1,400 days. This series features captured German and Russian film footage, much of which has never been seen before.

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...

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

13 years ago, director Bob Entrop made the film A piece of blue in the sky, the first film in the Ne...
This documentary examines three major christian theologians in nazi germany.

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

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argenti...


Highlights the increasingly important roles women occupy on the various fronts of WW II. In England,...

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...

A young filmmaker joins a tour of WWII veterans from the 29th Infantry through celebrations surround...

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...

In the 1940's American-born Willard MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing author...

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

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

This episode from the Czech Journal series examines how a military spirit is slowly returning to our...