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".

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of ...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

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 ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

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...

AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores t...
In 1553, England’s first Queen, Mary I, takes the throne. The country is on the brink of chaos, and ...

World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...

This story follows one man's quest to uncover the origins and reveal the mysteries of a possible Hol...

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape ...
Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during ...

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be...

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

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

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