Killing Hitler immerses you in the heart-pounding, moment-by-moment attempts to assassinate the Führer--including the daring plots orchestrated by Nazi officials within Hitler's inner circle. Through new scientific evidence, rare archives, expert analysis, and historically accurate dramatizations, witness these bold assassination attempts as if you were there.
The film is based on real events that took place in Samara - the counter-revolutionary conspiracy of 1921. The Samara GubChK brilliantly exposes the counter-revolutionary bandit conspiracy against the Soviet government. The main characters are real people. Levin, the chairman of the Cheka, was originally named Byrne and was later repressed in the 1930s.
This 26-part documentary series is a powerful revelation of a secret war - the South African Bush War, which lasted from 1966 until 1989, making it one of Africa's longest conflicts. The Bush War was fought in Northern Namibia (former South West Africa), and also in Southern Angola - so-called 'Operational Area' or 'Border'.
A series in which historians consider occasions when the Second World War might have been avoided, and the nature of the policy of the appeasement prior to, and in the early stages of, the war.
Witness the Vietnam War, its roots, its battles, its heroes and the price paid in the name of freedom. This stunning, detailed collection shows the war with heartbreaking realism. It looks at troubling questions about America's Justification for the conflict, the horrors of jungle warfare and the human calamity of the war. Ultimately, it profiles the courage of the soldiers who put their lives on the line in the name of patriotism.
April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…
When American troops started their final invasion of Nazi Germany in February 1945, cameramen were at their side and complied over a thousand reels covering 12 weeks in Germany until the ultimate collapse of the Third Reich including stories on the road from the Bulge over the Remagen Bridge to the Eagle’s Nest. Michael Kloft has selected the most striking scenes for his two-part documentary.
The story is set during the World War II. Seven prisoners manage to escape from the penitentiary and hide in a small village forsaken of God and men. Soon after they respire, they face a new hardship - a German subversive group appears near the village. And as the fate decree, the former 'enemies' of the Motherland turn into its fierce defenders.