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.

Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, am...

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented...

In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, ...

Using exclusively archival footage, this documentary traces the rise and collapse of the Third Reich...

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to ...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

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...
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...

The film looks at the men, their living conditions, the food they eat and their bamboo shower. It sh...

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...

Our two-hour film highlights the life and career of Dr. Schreiber with respect and clarity. Raemer, ...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a G...