Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather ...

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich...

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pa...

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important events in Western civilizatio...

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape ...
Mr Surgeoner takes the viewer on an enthralling journey through the SQA Higher History course.

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly i...

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska an...

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

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

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

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

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

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 wi...

Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even...

Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist S...

Between 1930 and 1945, Eastern Europe experienced mass violence on an unprecedented scale. Hitler an...