In June 1934, Hitler decided to eliminate the powerful leadership of the SA. With his pistol drawn, he entered the Hotel Hanselbauer in Bad Wiessee on June 30, where his friend Ernst Röhm and other SA functionaries were staying. The three-day murder operation within the SA's own ranks has gone down in history as the "Night of the Long Knives".

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...

On April 30, 1945, while the Russian Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker....

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

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...

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with grea...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...

This is the untold story of a Nazi vision, that went far beyond the military conquest of European co...

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

Eva Braun. Hitler’s mistress and eventual wife. A woman with a passion for photography and film, doc...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a ...
For the first time since 1997, Joachim Posener finally emerges from hiding and allows himself to be ...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...