One journalist described it as a chance "to see justice catch up with evil." On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany; they were charged with the systematic murder of millions of people. The ensuing trial pitted U.S. chief prosecutor and Supreme Court judge Robert Jackson against Hermann Göring, the former head of the Nazi air force, whom Adolf Hitler had once named to be his successor. Jackson hoped that the trial would make a statement that crimes against humanity would never again go unpunished. Proving the guilt of the defendants, however, was more difficult than Jackson anticipated. This American Experience production draws upon rare archival material and eyewitness accounts to recreate the dramatic tribunal that defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

A film about Dresden - before, during, and after the war.

Wolves divide and fascinate us. 150 years after they were driven to extinction in Central Europe, th...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

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

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular a...

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 ...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...

In World War II. African-American GIs liberate Germany from Nazi rule while racism prevailed in thei...

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British No...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the S...