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World War II: Behind Closed Doors
This a documentary film on the role of Joseph Stalin during World War II. The film combines narrative-led documentary segments, interwoven by dramatic re-enactments, with actors representing main political figures of the period. The documentary carries information newly available to the public, from the Soviet archives, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. British historian [...]
How the States Got Their Shapes
Every line on the U.S. map tells a story. Every border reflects their history – their struggles for independence, their internal conflicts over states rights and slavery, their westward expansion, and the mastery of their natural resources. They are so familiar with the map of United States, but do they know why their states look [...]
Posted in: Crime, History, Law, Society
EP3/3 The Last Nazis
Children of the Master Race looks at the Nazis’ secret breeding programme called Lebensborn, and how the surviving children have lived their lives in the knowledge that they were bred to rule the world.
Posted in: Crime, History, Law, Society
EP2/3 The Last Nazis
Most Wanted Most Wanted documents the journey of two young filmmakers who gain access, for the very first time, to some of the most wanted Nazi war criminals still alive in an attempt to discover how their wartime actions have shaped their lives forever.  
Posted in: Crime, History, Law, Society
EP1/3 The Last Nazis
The Hunt for Dr. Death In the autumn of 1941, a young Austrian doctor called Aribert Heim was assigned to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. In just six weeks, he murdered hundreds of inmates by carrying out horrific and needless experiments. His ‘procedures’ included injecting poison directly into the hearts of his patients, often timing them [...]
Dead Men’s Tales: Harry Houdini
Throughout his career, Houdini (born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) performed three variations on a “Buried Alive” stunt/escape. The first was near Santa Ana, California in 1917, and it almost cost Houdini his life. Houdini was buried, without a casket, in a pit of earth six feet deep. He became exhausted [...]
Posted in: History, War
Immigration: How We Lost Count
Panorama’s Richard Bilton went to Slough to find out the effects of immigration on the town’s people and the local council’s finances
Posted in: Educational, History, War
Shoah
Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 and a half hour documentary about the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since though only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing by asking for the most minute details is effective [...]
Posted in: History, War
Loyalists – War and Peace
Former Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) prisoners Gerry Spence and Bobby Philpott claim that Loyalist violence in the early nineties made the IRA realise they could not win. Peter Taylor reveals the true face of the Loyalist paramilitaries and assesses the prospects for peace in the face of continuing sectarian tensions.
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