War reshapes lives, leaving stories of courage, loss, and survival. Filmmakers have made countless great war movies — but what about documentaries? Great war documentaries do not just recount battles ...

A few days ago, on May 8, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on European soil. However, many Nazi henchmen, including monsters like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele ...

Film the week recommends Riefenstahl: a 'gripping and incrementally nauseating' documentary Andres Veiel's nuanced film examines whether the controversial film director was complicit in Nazi war ...

Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and co… ...

A Nazi art thief, UFOs and women at war are among the subjects covered in new factual shows being presented by PBS Distribution at Mip London, which takes place Feb. 23 to 27. Further titles will ...

The documentary “Riefenstahl” takes a critical look at the “Triumph of the Will” filmmaker. Adolf Hitler with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl during a Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1934.

The film instead focuses on Jewish communities and individuals throughout Eastern Europe who bravely rose up in resistance against the all-powerful Nazi war machine.

He appeared as a Nazi youth in Frank Capra’s wartime propaganda documentary “Prelude to War” and was drafted into service in the Army in 1945, serving in the entertainment unit stationed in ...

The following documentaries and programs explore various aspects of D-Day from those who lived through it. You will hear from the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in the ...

Culture Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi sympathies ran deeper than she admitted, a new documentary about the director argues The new documentary “Riefenstahl,” which premiered at the Venice Film ...

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker's landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II.