A story about the life and turbulent times of Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn, two exceptional scientists whose remarkable collaboration culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission, the division of the atom that changed the future. The show traces the development of nuclear science in the first half of the twentieth century, Meitner's early struggle for education and her quest to gain a foothold in the world of male-dominated physics, Hahn's initial research and independent discoveries, the collaborative discovery of the two scientists, as co-discoverers and the award of the Nobel Prize only to Hahn.

As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to hel...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

Our two-hour film highlights the life and career of Dr. Schreiber with respect and clarity. Raemer, ...
For four years (1977-1981) Esaias Baitel documented a violent Parisian neo-Nazi gang. Having gained ...

Let's keep it is a cinema documentary (99') about the still problematic attitude of the Republic of ...
In 1944 Rudolf Breslauer documented the everyday life in the Westerbork transit camp on film, commis...

The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who pla...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
A documentary film about the Nazi criminal Stefan Rojek. Rojko was an SS-Oberscharführer in the Smal...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces the rise of Nazism in general and the career of Adolf Eic...

Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration ca...

Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charg...

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on ...

Holocaust survivors describe their experiences being interred at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentrati...

Her opponents gave her the “Bullshit Award” for sustaining global poverty. Time Magazine hailed her ...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

Holocaust survivors, children of survivors, and grandchildren - as well as German freedom fighters -...

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...