Documentary | Nazi Germany (1932-45)

The plot of the documentary reveals the role of Azerbaijan and its people in defeating Nazism and the strategic importance of the Azerbaijani oil during the war.

A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.

Follow the Führer's rise to power, which was as unforeseeable as it was catastrophic.

Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.

THIRD REICH: THE RISE & FALL tells the story of Hitler's Germany through rarely seen films of the people who were there. Immersive and evocative, it takes viewers inside the Germany of the 20s, 30s, and early 40s, through the use of rare and never-before-seen home movies, Nazi propaganda films and other contemporaneous material. The narrative consists of personal recollections culled from German's diaries, journals and letters. The end result is an intimate, richly nuanced and authentic portrait of the Third Reich and its people.

Nazi collaborators, driven by greed, survival instincts or ideology, from Jewish leaders offering labor to politicians aiding Nazis against their countrymen, unraveling their complex motivations during WWII.

The story of Adolf Hitler, his large security detail and the numerous threats faced, both real and imagined.

The story of Klaus Barbie, Nazi torturer, American spy, tool of fascist right wing regimes, symbolic of the real relationship that the "Western" governments had with fascism and makes us see the world as it is today in a different way.

Family drama and historical truth collide in this film about the painful legacy cast by Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi executed for war crimes in 1947. In this documentary, Hanns Ludin's son, filmmaker Malte Ludin, breaks 60 years of silence and repression, investigating his father's dark deeds and interviewing his still-denying sisters. The film is an intimate look at the descendants of a Nazi perpetrator, most of whom refuse to accept the history of their family and of Nazi Germany more generally.

The story of Adolf Hitler's final days in the bunker in 1945.

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.

3-part series examining the life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Interviews from surviving soldiers who fought under Rommel and against Rommel in the British Army. The series examines the myth and the truth about Rommel's military career and legacy.

What shaped Adolf Hitler, the man who will bring endless suffering to countless people in WWII?

Most of what we know about World War II comes from monochromatic images and pictures. But this documentary brings something different: it's a fascinating collage of colored images from that period, filmed in 8mm and 16mm. All the footage was gathered from private collectors, soldiers, tourists, state institutions, even footage shot by Hitler's private pilot and there's also images captured by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion. Most of the images were recently discovered, some of them hidden for more than 40 years and they were all remastered and put together by director Michael Kloft.

This documentary examines the events leading up to the 1942 Wannsee conference which organized the "final solution" to destroy European Jews.

A two-part TV documentary on World War II, made exclusively from archive footage.

A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.

Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.

The popular reaction to a German museum exhibit detailing the war crimes and atrocities committed by Nazi Germany's regular armed forces is explored.

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.