Michael Kloft

24 h D-Day (2024)

D-Day marks the starting point for the liberation of Western Europe from the grip of the Nazi yoke. On June 6th, 1944, Allied soldiers attack German positions at no less than five sectors of the beach in Normandy. The assault takes place from the sea and i ...

The Third Reich in the Dock (2020)

The Nuremberg trials started in 1945 and marked a milestone in the establishment of international law. The images of high-ranking Nazis in the dock are seared into our collective memory. The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals staged by th ...

Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth (2020)

Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have not seen them in their entirety. The work of the German director has burned itself into the collective memory. Even decades after the end of the Nazi era, ...

Die Konferenz – Wie der Holocaust organisiert wurde (2017)

Die geheimen Bunker der DDR und der Schweiz (2013)

After the Berlin Wall fell, hidden GDR and Swiss Cold War bunkers surfaced. Author Michael Kloft tours preserved Stasi and NVA shelters, including sealed command centers for Honecker and Mielke, and abandoned missile sites. In Switzerland, "false chalets" ...

Hitler und der Wagner Clan (2013)

A documentary about the political entanglement between the Wagner Family and the leadership of the Third Reich. ...

Innenansichten - Deutschland 1937 (2012)

Inside Nazi Germany (2012)

Führer Cult and Megalomania (2011)

By early in the twentieth century, Nuremberg was regarded as the most anti-Semitic city in Europe. By 1929, Hitler had decided to make Nuremberg the "City of the Party Rallies" and a symbol representing the greatness of the German Empire. Even today, it is ...

Dear Uncle Adolf: The Germans and Their Führer (2010)

More than any other historical documents, It is the personal private letters written by a people to "their" dictator that provide the most intimate glimpses of the history of the Third Reich. A treasure of more than 100,000 such letters were recently found ...

Hitler privat - Das Leben des Diktators (2010)

Der Nürnberger Prozess - Tribunal des Todes (2009)

When the Allies realized the full extent of the crimes of the Third Reich at the end of the Second World War, it was clear that they would not be satisfied with a simple capitulation. Those responsible should not get away with it. The result of these delib ...

Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer (2008)

Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history. ...

Görings letzte Schlacht - Das Tribunal von Nürnberg (2006)

The second man in the Nazi regime tried in vain to avoid punishment at the Nuremberg trials. On November 20, 1945, an international military tribunal began the trial of twenty-one leaders of the Third Reich. The tribunal indicted fanatical ideologues and r ...

The Nuremberg Trials (2006)

One journalist described it as a chance "to see justice catch up with evil." On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany; th ...

Hitlers Berg (2006)

Adolf Hitler spent over 1,000 days on the Obersalzberg, his mountain holiday refuge near Berchtesgaden. It was there he made his decisions about war and destruction. The producers, through special permits, explore the abandoned concrete tunnels in search o ...

Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall (2004)

Adolf Hitler spent the last ten days of his life in a bunker underneath the Chancellery of the Reich. Unwilling to face the consequences of defeat, the dictator ended his own life on April 30, 1945 in this fortified underground complex. Featuring exclusive ...

Firestorm (2003)

After suffering heavy losses of aircraft during attacks on German factories, Winston Churchill orders cities to be targeted in order to smash German morale and reduce the number of workers available for the Nazi war machine. Hundreds of thousands of German ...

The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film "The Great Dictator," released in 1940. ...

Hitler's Lost Sub (2000)

In 1991, professional diver John Chatterton discovered a sunken German U-boat from World War II, lying undetected only 60 miles off the New Jersey shore, its unexploded torpedoes and the bodies of its crew still aboard. This two-hour special follows Chatte ...

Television Under the Swastika (1999)

A history of Nazi television programming and technology, from 1935 to 1944. ...

The Third Reich In Color (1998)

This remarkable trove of color footage, assembled from far-flung private and state collections, presents Hitler's Europe as never seen before. Amateur film enthusiasts - soldiers, tourists, Hitler's own pilot, even Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun - began expe ...

Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg (1998)

The Third Reich in the Dock (2020)

The Nuremberg trials started in 1945 and marked a milestone in the establishment of international law. The images of high-ranking Nazis in the dock are seared into our collective memory. The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals staged by th ...