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- A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
- During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
- In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.
- Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
- The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
- Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.
- The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
- An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
- Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race", designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off.
- The World War 2 Battle of Stalingrad from the initial attack to the repatriation of the survivors after the war.
- John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatization.
- Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
- In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic, a poor Berlin youth is torn between loyalty to his unemployed Communist father and his ever-growing fascination of the Hitler Youth movement.
- The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
- A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
- Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
- Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from 30 August to 3 September 1933. The film is of great historic interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Röhm was shot on the orders of Hitler on the Night of the Long Knives in July 1934. All known copies of the film were destroyed on Hitler's orders, and it was considered lost until a copy turned up in the 1990s in the United Kingdom
- The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
- For his first return film in now National Socialist Germany, Pabst presented a historical tribute to the very first national theater troupe there,founded by a group of actors in the town of Weimar in the 18th century.
- Annie is an illegitimate child brought up by her uncle, a fanatical priest. After her first sexual experience, Annie is so overwhelmed by guilt, it profoundly affects the lives of those closest to her.
- A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her child being raised by an orchestra conductor and his wife.
- In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London. She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an officer in the Queen's regiment. He is supposed to pay his debts before leaving and uses an altered cheque to do so. After Finsbury has left, the forgery is discovered. To protect him, Gloria claims responsibility and is sentenced to 7 years in the notorious Paramatta prison, Sydney. From prison she sends a note to him asking for help, but he does not reply. An Aussie seller falls in love with her and asks her to marry him - she agrees, but only so she can get out of prison. When she finds out Finsbury is planning to marry the Governor's daughter, she is heartbroken. Finsbury finally finds her, but she no longer loves him.
- This 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.
- Documentary using only original colour footage charts the 12 years from Adolf Hitler's rise to power to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Complemented by eyewitness material, tracks the dramatic transformation of Germany into a Nazi state, looks into Hitler's relationship with his lover Eva Braun and replicates pivotal events, including Nazi rallies, the invasion of Poland, Hitler's meeting with Lloyd George, the horrors of Buchenwald concentration camp, Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto, the Battle of Britain and the fall of Berlin.
- In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
- Academics, public relations experts, and satirists of various kinds describe the history and nature of propaganda.
- Documentary film produced for the 10th anniversary release of the film Schindler's List (1993) and the establishment of the "Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation"
- This 2-disc series covers the dynamic relationships between the four major warlords of the second world war and their strategic aspirations and fears.
- A once wealthy Hungarian family tries to get back a racehorse they owned earlier but it is going to cost them.
- The story of Stalin's life and terrible career, told mainly in interviews with survivors of his terror.
- In the middle of a revolution, the son of a president ends up in the hands of a German hunter who welcomes him into his home, not knowing his origin.
- Feature scenes and interviews with Anne Frank's contemporaries to tell the story of her short life.
- An in-depth British breakdown of how NASA never had the technology to overcome putting a man on on the moon or anywhere further than low orbit from the Apollo moon missions even today with the Space Shuttle designed to go nowhere but lower orbit
- A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never met, but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance - not knowing who's who - and fall in love.
- Interviews with former children who survived the Holocaust concentration camps and who were rehabilitated in a disused aircraft factory overlooking Lake Windermere in the UK, and whose experiences in adjusting to freedom in a foreign country were dramatised in The Windermere Children (2020). It also describes their experiences as they were rounded up by the Germans in their home towns and taken by cattle train to concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
- Plucky secretary follows her boss on a business trip to help him seal a deal, creating misunderstandings amongst all concerned.
- Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940) - required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure - save for Leni Riefenstahl - is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years. (Harlan's epic Burning Hearts (1945) was the basis for Inglourious Basterds (2009)'s pivotal film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.) This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.
- A look at the early life and career of German silent filmmaker F.W. Murnau, with special emphasis on the production of Nosferatu (1922), examining its occult influences and revisiting its filming locations.
- A survey of 86 years of Titanicana in popular culture, with the emphasis on movies about (or inspired by) the disaster.
- Harry Yquem, a wealthy broker, remains obsessed with delusions of his devout wife's infidelity.
- A look at the parallel lives of Charles Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of The Great Dictator (1940).
- On 26 November 1942, 529 Jewish people were sent by ship from Oslo. Now, 80 years later, some of the people who grew up during the war tells us about what really happened to the Jews in the streets.
- The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa's place at a circus show in Wintergarten, Berlin.
- Mathias Clausen is a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies.
- While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.
- An espionage case set in higher society. In order to save the prestige of his country, a diplomat finally voluntarily departs from life.
- The seventh sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a young female dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
- More than 70 years ago, the Kiel gynecologist Carl Clauberg tried to sterilize hundreds of girls and women in the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on behalf of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. Many died as a result of the inhuman experiments. The last survivors tell of the terrible experiences they had in the camp.