Nước Mỹ trong thời kì chiến tranh lạnh. Một ngày đẹp trời, viên tướng Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) bỗng nảy ra ý định tấn công Liên Xô bằng bom nguyên tử. Lệnh tấn công được phát ra, và các máy bay B52 lập tức lên đường, trực chỉ Liên Xô. Sĩ quan Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) tìm mọi cách làm cho Jack D. Ripper nghĩ lại và thu hồi lệnh tấn công, nhưng đều thất bại. Cùng lúc đó, tại Lầu Năm Góc, một cuộc họp khẩn cấp được triệu tập nhằm ngăn chặn bằng mọi giá vụ tấn công. Họ được Đại sứ Liên Xô thông báo rằng, nếu như vụ tấn công xảy ra, cỗ máy Doomsday Machine của Liên Xô sẽ tự động kích hoạt, và trong vòng 10 tháng tới sẽ không còn bất kì sinh vật nào trên Trái Đất còn sống sót. Nỗi lo về ngày tận thế đến gần, và những nhân vật chóp bu của Mỹ tìm mọi cách ngăn chặn thảm hoạ cho toàn nhân loại...
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1951. Criminal investigator Anders Olsen follows the case of a bank robber who eyewitnesses say appears to have been acting under some kind of trance.
A reporter doing a story on taxidermy discovers an odd older couple that he becomes convinced are ex-Nazi's. The chief item leading to this belief is an odd puppet theater the couple operate in their basement that re-creates the Nazi era using stuffed creatures.
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless.
After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over night. The next morning, his wife Steffi has disappeared and is reported as a missing person. Captain Lohm takes over the case and at first looks for signs of a murder, but to no avail. Then, Steffi′s body is found in a lake. After her funeral, a stranger who had attended Steffi′s funeral for a short time is also found dead in a lake, and the connection between the two cases becomes apparent.
For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations, set-backs trials and dramas, brought about principally by three extraordinary individuals—the Austrian Simon Wiesenthal, and the German-French couple, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.
The spectacular moon landing in 1969 was also a success of more than 100 technicians and engineers from Germany, some of whom had already revolutionized weapons technology and built rockets in Hitler's service during World War II. The documentary analyzes the entanglements of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.