Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history.

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, sa...

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

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

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...

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

Starting with a Nazi plan to steal the Rimet Trophy from Italy during World War II, the story unfold...

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

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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 ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 194...

A reckoning of Nazi Germany’s planned execution of its own citizens with physical and mental disabil...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...