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.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
Documenting the rebuilding of Potsdam one year after the war under Soviet supervision.

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

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

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape ...

A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face o...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...
A 4-year-old girl cries, lost in the city. A Soviet soldier on a ferry takes her in and takes her 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...

Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physician...

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...