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- StarsLaurence OlivierAverell HarrimanAnthony EdenA groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsHelmut TausendMarcel VerdierAlexis GraveAn in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- StarsSamuel WestAdolf BuchnerJutta RüdigerAn examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
- DirectorStuart SchulbergStarsFrancis BiddleKarl DönitzHans FrankThe official U.S. government film about the 1st Nuremberg trial (The Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals) which lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
- StarsKeith DavidKatharine PhillipsTom HanksA seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
- DirectorAllan HolzmanStarsSteven SpielbergHenry RosmarinHellmuth SzprycerThis documentary blends personal accounts of what happened before, during and after WWII. One testimony tells of a sister sending tear-stained letters from the prison camp, while another survivor tells the story of how his father traded portions of the family's food that was being saved for the liberation march, a few slices of bread, for a Jewish prayer book in order to perform a Passover sedar and for Sabbath. Woven together with survivor testimonies, archival footage, original music, source music and survivors' personal photographs and artifacts, the documentary will show the richness of life before the war, the rise and fall of Nazi power, the liberation of the camps and life now, 50 years later, all as seen through the eyes of those who survived.
- DirectorDaniel AnkerStarsGene HackmanNorma BarzmanJack BennyThe history of Hollywood's handling of the Nazis and its later depiction of the Holocaust they perpetrated.
- DirectorMenachem DaumOren RudavskyStarsAkiva DaumMenachem DaumRifka DaumMenachem Daum, the son of holocaust survivors, and a New York Orthodox Jew worries that both of his sons, full time yeshiva students who live with their families in Israel, are becoming seduced to intolerance by their religious studies. "All religions today are in danger of being hijacked by extremists." To open their perspectives just a little he sets off with his wife, Rifka, and both sons, Tzvi Dovid and Akiva, to visit the Polish towns where his parents grew up and to try to find the Catholic farmers who hid his father-in-law from the Germans. Enduring the bemused tolerance of his sons, Menachem persists until they find Honorata Matuszezyk Mucha who as a young woman brought food nightly to Rifka's father and his two brothers for 28 months until the end of World War II. The Daum sons perspectives widen a bit to allow for good Gentiles, but they also encounter some resentment from the Poles who heard no word from the three brothers after they left their hiding place, not even a postcard with a thank you. A lot of issues are surfaced but left unresolved in this well crafted documentary.
- DirectorJon BlairStarsDirk BogardeEmilie SchindlerOskar SchindlerThe true story of Oskar Schindler's exploits in which he saved a thousand Jews from the ovens of the death camps, told by first hand witnesses. The British Academy Award winning documentary that preceded Spielberg's "Schindler's List" by 10 years.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsSimon SrebnikMichael PodchlebnikMotke ZaïdlClaude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
- StarsSamuel WestAdolf HitlerJoseph StalinDocumentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
- DirectorLouis Clyde StoumenStarsMarlene DietrichAdolf HitlerThe rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
- DirectorEdward HalitskyStarsRoxanne HalitskySteve HalitskyDuring World War II, ordinary citizens rescued many lives near Hitler's Headquarters in Ukraine. These are their stories.
- DirectorBrian LankerStarsJason RobardsFranklin BoggsHoward BrodieThe story of World War II combat artists and their art.
- DirectorRobert ChildStarsWalter CronkiteHal HolbrookAndrew Rooney6,000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed gliders into battle. Only a few returned.
- DirectorStephen BurnsStarsRon DavidJames DelgadoKnut HauglandShowcases 3 major events during World War 2 involving both the Europeans & Pacific conflicts. The Raids to destroy Nazi Germany's heavy water production based in Norway, plus the final desperate act to deny them what had already been stockpiled. The Japanese midget submarines role and participation in the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. What they achieved plus what was their ultimate fate. The attacks on United States warships in the Pacific late in World War 2 by the Japanese Kamikaze and Okha Squadrons. The Kamikaze attacks were in whatever planes the Japanese forces were able to gather. The Okha attacks were made in specially built flying bombs that were towed by larger and usually slower aircraft that were not suitable for fighter work.
- DirectorChuck OlinStarsPeter ThomasMike NussbaumNicholas RudallThe story of the only all-Jewish fighting force in World War II.
- StarsBill RatnerKonstantin AkinshaKenneth AlfordThe end of the Second World War in Europe, and the aftermath: war criminals to be brought to trial, stolen art treasures to be returned to their rightful owners.
- StarsPatrick O'NealImportant campaigns and battles of the Second World War II are narrated.
- DirectorWesley EmersonStarsJames SikkingA rare look at how a nation of men and women mobilized to convert our economy into a war machine, emerging as the most powerful country in the world. Hosted by James B. Sikking. Includes: Vol. 1 - "Changing the Face of America" Politics make war, and men and women do the fighting. And a war such as World War II is as much a war of economy as of armies. For each soldier, each sailor, each airman had alongside him the factory worker, the shipbuilder, the "Rosie the Riveter" that so epitomized a time of unity that may never be repeated again.. Vol. 2 - "A World in Flames" They shared the look of broken promises. But this is America, land of opportunity, land of promise. Yet there was no work. There was no hope. In a land built on hope, on promise, on dreams, there were breadlines, there were bank closures, and there were so many frightened faces. Vol. 3 - "The Problems of Peace" GI Joe was home. An incredible industrial war machine had been assembled and had emerged victorious. The face of the world would be forever changed. The face of American also. The economy of war success would now have to adapt to peace. Prosperity had a new enemy.
- DirectorAndrew JohnstonStarsJohn James EvansonJames FaulknerEve MathesonDrama-documentary evoking what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the days of the Blitz and the later bombing raids on London.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsAdolf HitlerHermann GöringMax AmannThe infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
- DirectorHarry WattStarsJohn CobbRichard PeirsePercy Charles PickardThe planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.
- DirectorJoachim FestChristian HerrendoerferStarsGert WestphalStephen MurrayArtur AxmannThis 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.
- DirectorLutz HachmeisterStarsUdo SamelKenneth BranaghHeinrich BrüningThrough archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
- DirectorLeanne SchinkelA feature-length documentary which delves into the infamous history of the luxurious SS City of Medicine Hat, a 130 ft steamship which met her untimely end on June 7th, 1908 when she crashed into the newly constructed Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and sank to the bottom of the swiftly flowing river. One hundred years later, after the happenstance discovery of the ship's anchor by Saskatoon Fire & Protective Services divers, a full-scale underwater excavation was launched in an endeavor to locate artifacts from the ship and attempt to piece together the story of the last steamship to ever embark upon the waters of the South Saskatchewan. And now, you're invited to come onboard and join the search!
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsEduard BenesNeville ChamberlainClementine ChurchillThe official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsGeneral BergeretKarl BrandtWinston ChurchillThe World War II US Government account of the European theatre of the war from after the English and French entry to the fall of France.
- DirectorWilliam MilesNina RosenblumStarsDenzel WashingtonLouis Gossett Jr.Leon BassAn account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front. In April 1945, some Black American soldiers were among the first 'liberators' to enter Nazi death camps, encountering the survivors described by one GI as "walking skeletons."
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsYehuda LernerFrancine KaufmannClaude LanzmannA gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
- DirectorGeorge Stevens Jr.StarsGeorge Stevens Jr.Dick KentKen MartheyProduced and narrated by George Stevens Jr., this short documentary uses footage taken by his father when he was in the Army Signal Corps and follows American troops from D-Day in June 1944 to the end of the European war.
- DirectorRob LihaniStarsGerald McRaneyStephen AmbroseJohn Keegan
- DirectorMarion MilneStarsRalph FiennesKate Steavenson-PayneRichie GibsonFollowing the lives of ten characters through their letters and diaries in the ten days before D-Day. The mini-series contains documentary interviews with the people on which the book, and this mini-series were based.
- DirectorHorst WigankoStarsErwin RommelDocumentary about the German campaign in Africa in 1941/42 and the personality of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
- DirectorNicholas NatteauStarsYvonne FurneauxPaul GustavsonStephan JacobsHow Field Marshal Erwin Rommel became implicated in the July 20, 1944 officers' plot against Hitler. A morality tale highlighting the dilemma of the modern soldier forced to choose between obeying orders and following his conscience.
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsAnne BorelClaude HébertNicolas PhilibertA filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.
- StarsBudd KnappLord AthloneLord BeaverbrookApril - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war.
- DirectorLarry WeinsteinStarsValery GergievNetherlands Radio PhilharmonicFlora LitvinovaDocumentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.
- DirectorTracy AtkinsonJoan BaranDave FlittonStarsPatrick AllenMadjid BlavatskyRudolf GorslebenThis chilling series traces the occult origins of the Nazi party and follows them through to the death of the evil figure at its very heart.
- DirectorMichael KloftStarsIon AntonescuMartin BormannEva BraunMost 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.
- DirectorJack KaufmanStarsRichard BasehartErnst HanfstaenglAdolf Hitler"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitler's rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes. Researchers spent decades uncovering shocking footage of war, carnage and genocide and examined government documents and interviews with Hitler's closest associates to discover how one man led his nation and the world into hell.
- DirectorR.J. AdamsThis film explores the mystic castles of Hitler's SS and political soldiers. The enormous neo classic and medevil fortresses were typical of nazi architecture in the Third Reich and today serve as military installations. Until now, the three Order Castles have never been viewed by the general public.
- StarsHarlon BlockJohn H. BradleyRene A. GagnonDocumentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.
- DirectorLauren LextonStarsGene HackmanJames BradleyThis heartrending documentary tells the story behind the most famous war photograph ever taken.
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsAnthony VeillerIon AntonescuNikolay CherkasovDocumentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
- StarsLinda HuntSamuel WestGert HeidenreichThe history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
- DirectorLiz GarbusStarsEdith Hahn BeerJulia OrmondSusan SarandonEdith Han was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a Jewish ghetto. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned home months later, she found her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman's identity papers, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.
- DirectorJohn MichalczykStarsDonald WinningArthur CaplanDonald DietrichIn the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine examines the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide.
- DirectorTore SjöbergStarsClaude StephensonHenning SkaarupMogens WiethDocuments the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsHermann GöringRudolf HessAdolf HitlerAfter German generals complained about the army's lack of presence in Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will", she produced this propaganda piece for them.
- DirectorAlfred WeidenmannStarsGunnar MöllerHans Richter
- DirectorAlfred Weidenmann
- CreatorGuido KnoppStarsDavid RitchieChristian BrücknerTraudl JungePortraits of important people in Nazi-Germany.
- DirectorAndré HellerOthmar SchmidererStarsTraudl JungeDocumentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsEva BraunAdolf HitlerDocuments the tale of a dim, middle-class teenager who comes to love the greatest mass murderer of all time. Includes movies Eva shot with a 16mm camera and narrated with excerpts from her diary.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoGabriel RotelloStarsMarlene SandersAdolf HitlerLothar MachtanGerman historian Lothar Machtan proposed in his book that Hitler may have been gay and his desire to keep it a secret motivated many of his actions. This film details Machtan's explorations and provides other historians a chance to refute Machtan's conclusions.
- DirectorLutz BeckerStarsJoseph GoebbelsAdolf HitlerBuster KeatonLutz Becker lets newsreels, home movies and other archive footage tell the tale of Hitler's rise to power after WWI.
- StarsSebastian KochTobias MorettiDagmar ManzelA reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.Very good documentary/ drama about Albert Speers relationship with Hitler, and how did Speer get only 20 years in prison after the Nürnberg trial? Didnt he know about the holocaust? This and more important questions will be answered in this 4 hours and 30 min film.
- DirectorArun KumarThe Bielskis were the only Jewish family in their tiny village of Stankevich, and while Jews in Belorussia were persecuted under tsarist rule, the family managed to maintain a successful mill. In June 1941, when Nazi Germany invaded its former ally the Soviet Union, conditions for Jews worsened immediately. Jewish ghettos were established in the nearby cities of Novogrudek and Lida, which early in the war were the sites of several mass killings of Jews. Nazis combed the countryside, and the Bielski parents and two siblings were taken to their deaths. As the gravity of the situation dawned on them, three Bielski brothers, Tuvia, Asael and Zus, who had been finding shelter with sympathetic gentiles, decided that their only hope for survival lay in the dense surrounding forests that they knew so well. Once theyd gathered their remaining relatives, the brothers, under Tuvias leadership, staged daring rescues in Novogrudek and Lida in an effort to bring as many Jews as possible to the forest with them. While they procured weapons and supplies to kill enemy soldiers and sabotage their operations, the Bielskis priority was the preservation of their people. Tuvia often declared that he would rather save one old Jewish woman than kill 10 Nazis. Their mobility was facilitated by the fact that in addition to their native Yiddish, they could speak Russian and German; Tuvias less-recognizably-Jewish appearance enabled him to pass as a gentile. They were also aided by non-Jewish peasants with whom theyd grown upone in particular put his own family at great risk by providing food and shelter to Jews who had escaped the ghettos and were searching for the rumored Jerusalem in the woods. As more skilled workers arrived with their supplies, the once-primitive encampment evolved, complete with a kitchen, a mill, a bathhouse, a medical facility and other institutions of civil society. By the time Red Army troops overran the Germans, in the summer of 1944, the Bielskis had around 1,200 men, women and children in their charge, making theirs easily the largest rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II. During their two and a half years in the forest, the group endured several German raids and lost only 50 members of their unit. The Bielskis estimated that they killed more than 250 enemy fighters. The groups astounding ability to overcome dire circumstances makes one wonder how much simple luck played a part in their survival. Tuvia felt that God was guiding him somehow, but they had their fair share of luck,
- DirectorRob EpsteinJeffrey FriedmanStarsRupert EverettKlaus MüllerKarl GorathHistorian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
- DirectorEyal SivanStarsAdolf EichmannGideon HausnerGabriel BachThe incredible trial of an appallingly ordinary man. Drawn entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem, this film about obedience and responsibility is the portrait of an expert in problems resolving, a modern criminal. The film is inspired from the controversial book by Hannah Arendt : "Eichmann in Jerusalem, report on the banality of evil".
- StarsClark GableWilliam A. HatcherPhilip J. HullsA documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group's air and ground crews are followed through a number of bombing missions over Hitler's Germany.
- DirectorEdvins SnoreStarsJon StricklandVladimir BukovskyVladimir LeninThe Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
- DirectorMartin SmithStarsEric PorterLev BezymenskiTraudl JungeThe Russians claimed that Hitler was still alive and was a British prisoner, at first. Then they said his corpse had been autopsied by themselves. Hitler's in-house people in the bunker said he had shot himself and that Eva had taken cyanide. The Russians claimed he had poisoned himself. The manner of Hitler's actual death remains a mystery. Attempts in this documentary try to clarify the conflicting stories.Documentary.
- StarsRick Steves
- DirectorWalter D. EngelsStarsWestbrook Van VoorhisPaula WolfJulius Schaub1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.
- DirectorMo AbersheidIn 1930s Germany, Friedrich Karl Nischwitz was a student at a military school for the Hitler Youth. After 4 years of beatings and humiliation by his classmates and elders, Fred finally escaped to the USA. Friedrich Karl Nischwitz became Fred Curtis, a US citizen, who fought against the Germans during World War II. After the war, Fred embarked on his greatest achievement, to become one of the founding fathers of the modern day computer hard drive. This is Fred's story.
- 19921h 53mNot Rated7.4 (111)DirectorHava Kohav BellerStarsJohn DildineRoland FreislerCarl Friedrich GoerdelerIn 1944, at least 170 German citizens were brought to trial and convicted as participants in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. This was not an isolated act, but rather the last of more than 20 attempts to overthrow the Nazi Regime. Powerful and provocative, Academy Award nominee THE RESTLESS CONSCIENCE explores the motivating principles and activities of the anti-Nazi resistance inside Germany from 1933 to 1945. The film is a deeply moving portrayal of individual destinies, focusing on the moral and political evolution of individuals whose conscience was at odds with an overpowering national consensus. Hava Kohav Beller's THE RESTLESS CONSCIENCE highlights the tension between individual responsibility to a personal ethical code, and to a tyrannical political system. In telling their story, the film recognizes those who, despite mortal danger to themselves and their families, had the courage to uphold essential human values.
- DirectorErwin LeiserStarsPaul KlingerClaude StephensonLouis Arbessier"Mein Kampf" presents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life of Hitler, from when he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of art living in the slums of Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being responsible for the deaths of millions of people and the destruction of Europe. All of the footage is real and was in a secret file of Göbbels, including many poignant scenes filmed by Göbbels himself.
- DirectorJeremy LoveringStarsPeter McDonaldKate AshfieldKenneth CranhamA drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAdolf HitlerWeaves together a bank of images from German and Soviet archive footage, drawing out a psychological dimension from the historical landscape at the end of World War II.
- DirectorGarson KaninCarol ReedStarsDwight D. EisenhowerLeslie BanksWinston ChurchillA documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
- StarsDwight D. Eisenhower
- DirectorØystein RakkenesStarsBernard BrekkeErling BrekkeHow much is a brother's life worth? Joining the Nazi party at the height of the Second World War? Or fighting for the German Army? Bernhard Brekke had to go through with both of these drastic measures when his brother Erling was caught as a spy for the English in 1941 and sentenced to execution. If Bernhard did as the Germans said, his brother would be saved. And Erling was pardoned, but sent to Concentration Camps in Germany, where he remained for almost four years. Bernhard on the other hand, was sent to the heart of a Germany at war. While his brother was living under the worst conditions in German captivity, Bernhard had to fight the Russians on the Eastern Front. They struggled for survival on different sides during the war, but they both returned in May 1945, one a War hero, the other sentenced and jailed as a Traitor against his own country. Today they have both become two old men, with each their own remarkable story of how to overcome a difficult past. Brothers at War is about the choices of two brothers during the Second World War, and the consequences of these choices in the years to follow from then to now. It's a film about strong family ties, but also a story of distrust, intrigue and condemnation in the wake of the War. And a meeting between two brothers after almost 70 years, where they conclude that the so called Traitor is the real Hero.
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsWalter HustonVictor Bulwer-LyttonKai-Shek ChiangThe official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
- DirectorHarriet EderThomas KufusStarsErich von MansteinLate in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.
- DirectorDan TraubStarsDan TraubThis film profiles the exploits of the heroes of Tulare, California, including two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Bob Mathias. It also focuses on the B-17 monument "Preston's Pride," which is dedicated to Gen. Maurice Preston, a Tulare native who became a Four-Star General, and to the 379th Bomber Group, who in 1945, won the "Grand Slam Award," for its outstanding achievements in WW2. Many local WW2 Veterans are interviewed, as well as Bob Mathias.
- 1983– 21m5.5 (10)TV EpisodeDirectorDon HoranStarsPatrick O'NealErwin RommelThe birth of the Afrika Korps and it's leader Erwin Rommel who was to earn the pseudonym Desert Fox.
- DirectorRay MüllerStarsLeni RiefenstahlMarlene DietrichArnold FanckA documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis.
- StarsGary SiniseCharles ScheffelRon LivingstonFollow the lives of soldiers who lived World War II, through previously unseen color footage.
- StarsRonald ReaganHarold AlexanderJohn AllisonDocumentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road - originally called The Ledo Road - a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsKlaus BarbieClaude LanzmannMarcel OphülsA documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
- 1985–7.1 (39)TV EpisodeStarsRichard KileyRobert BallardLudovic KennedyNational Geographic Explorer and Bob Ballard search the depths of the Atlantic for the remains of the German battleship Bismark.
- DirectorRichard BrooksLouis HaywardStarsAlexander Bonnyman Jr.John BorichMerritt A. EdsonDocumentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
- DirectorJon BlairStarsKenneth BranaghGlenn CloseIsa BaschwitzTells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
- DirectorGeorge UngarStarsJim MorrisColm FeoreDavid HemblenThe story of Charles E. Bedaux, Franco-American industrial efficiency expert, adventurer, and Nazi collaborator.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsMark W. ClarkJohn HustonDirector John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
- StarsAnthony QuayleChuck YeagerJohn YoungA twelve part series, first broadcast on BBC 2, that tells the epic story of the aeroplane, in peace and war, from its first 12 second flight on the sand dunes of Kittyhawk to its supersonic flights at the edge of space.
- DirectorMatthew WebberStarsBen AltmanJohn DobsonFred Alan WolfA man realizes his childhood dream after surviving 5 Nazi camps in Poland. An account of one of the most hidden underground art movements, shows how a creativity can heal, even in the most de-humanizing of conditions.