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.

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...
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...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...
In 1944 Rudolf Breslauer documented the everyday life in the Westerbork transit camp on film, commis...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...

Let's keep it is a cinema documentary (99') about the still problematic attitude of the Republic of ...

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

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...
For four years (1977-1981) Esaias Baitel documented a violent Parisian neo-Nazi gang. Having gained ...

A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration c...

In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, ...
Their names are Chorowicz, Cyroulnik, Glichtzman, Feldhandler... They were born in France, after the...

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

Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes,...

Whitwell, TN is a small, rural community of less than two thousand people nestled in the mountains o...