La magia di Wonder torna ad emozionarci con un nuovo capitolo tratto dalla graphic novel di R. J. Palacio, Wonder: White Bird. Dopo gli eventi di Wonder, il bullo Julian è stato espulso dalla scuola e cerca di ambientarsi nel nuovo istituto. Sentendolo in difficoltà, la nonna lo sorprende, gli fa visita da Parigi e gli racconta la storia della sua infanzia. Di come lei, giovane ragazza ebrea nella Francia occupata dai nazisti, fu nascosta e protetta da un compagno di classe. Di come la sensibilità e il coraggio di questo ragazzo le abbiano salvato la vita. Di quanto può essere forte il potere della gentilezza, tale da cambiare il mondo.
Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Un uomo d'affari ebreo connivente e ambizioso, Süß Oppenheimer, si intrufola come tesoriere del corrotto duca di Wurttemburg, inondandolo di tesori e con la promessa di ricchezze ancora maggiori. Man mano che i piani dell'uomo diventano più elaborati e le sue azioni più sfacciate, nel ducato quasi esplode una guerra civile.
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
The British Empire sees its interests in South Africa threatened by the Boers from Holland and engages them in battle. The Boer leader Ohm Krüger is unable to secure peace - open war breaks out. Britain uses the most brutal means to assert its claims to power over the Boers. Villages are plundered and destroyed indiscriminately, the natives are incited and women and children are interned. The small Boer people are forced to capitulate to the British superiority despite their valiant resistance.
Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movies, we explore the way in which the Third Reich infiltrated the lives of the German population, from 1933 to 1945.
È la storia di Quex, giovane che milita nella gioventù hitleriana, figlio di comunisti, che dai comunisti viene ucciso mentre distribuisce volantini nazisti.
This documentary examines how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism, occultism, and mind-control techniques in their efforts to win the war.
Norimberga, 1933: con cinque operatori, la Riefenstahl riprende le varie fasi del congresso del Partito Nazionalsocialista, i discorsi di Hitler, le parate militari.
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.
Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a closer look into the historical propaganda show.
In 1938 Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler sponsored an expedition to Tibet lead by several Nazi SS scientists to study the regions flora and fauna, and to take scientific measurements of the Earths magnetic fields. The expedition was also sent to find traces of the orgins of the "Aryan" race in Tibet which was where Himmler thought evidence of could be found. This film is a Nazi era documentary of that expedition.
This Nazi propaganda film tells the story of a young truck driver who is having trouble making ends meet until he is exposed to the teachings of Adolf Hitler, and he joins the S.A., aka Storm Troopers, and manages to convert his father--a former soldier with Marxist leanings--and his girlfriend of the rightness of the Nazi cause.
In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a family friend, Dr. Lang, to help end her life. When this doctor declines to help with the assisted suicide, however, she is forced to turn to her husband. After much soul-searching, Dr. Heyt, her husband, assists in her suicide. The act, however, is witnessed by a chambermaid, who reports him to the police. Dr. Heyt is put on trial for murder and, at first, Dr. Lang testifies against him in court. Soon, however, Dr. Lang is faced with a similar case in his professional practice and this, along with Dr. Heyt’s impassioned performance in court, convinces Dr. Lang that, in some instances, mercy killing may be the right thing to do.
"Götterdämmerung 1945: The last 10 weeks of the Third Reich" - from the battle of the Ardennes till the end. Die Deutsche Wochenschau (The German Weekly Review) was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from 1940 until the end of World War II.
Hitler, Nazi propaganda and 1936 Berlin Olympics are put under the microscope to uncover hidden truths and the historical legacy of those games.
In front of television crews and thousands of spectators, Spaceship-1—commanded by Commodore Hardt, inventor of the powerful rocket fuel "Neotan-X"—blasts off on the first flight to the Moon.
A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.