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- This six-part series traces the Second World War, from the rise of the Nazis to the surrender of the Japanese, with detailed portraits of key figures.
- Summer 1945. An iron curtain comes down, separating the Communist Eastern bloc and the West, led by the Americans. And nuclear weapons leaves mankind under perpetual threat of a new Apocalypse.
- Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles. Original French production retold in English for National Geographic channel as: World War 1: The Apocalypse
- Chronicles Hitler's life as a failed painter and far-right activist up to his election as Chancellor of Germany, leading to his relentless rise to power, culminating in the beginning of World War II.
- The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
- The story of the end of the Second World War as seen by Hitler from 1943 and the turning point of the terrible Battle of Kursk. The end of the reign of the Nazi dictator.
- May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West. Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse?
- In June 1941, Hitler took his greatest gamble - launching an attack against the Soviet Union. Despite being the largest German operation of WWII, Operation Barbarossa was one of his biggest failures.
- "The war was over. But it wasn't over. We just didn't know it." Stefan Zweig.
- A gripping and shocking documentary composed of numerous colorized archive footage. Apocalypse: Verdun takes us to the infamous and bloody battle of Verdun that occurred in February 1916, when World War I had been raging for two years.
- Filmed interviews with the survivors of the Berlin Bunker in which Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family killed themselves in the final days of World War II. The interviews were made in 1948 by Captain Michael Musmanno, a US Navy Lawyer and Nuremberg Judge, and the film was offered to Hollywood, but the mood of the western world had changed and wanted to forget Hitler and the war and instead look to the future. The film remained in a US university archive until it was re-discovered in 2013.
- Questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war. And shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion.
- "Royals at War" examines the strategies used by the royal families of Europe during World War II in the face of increasingly powerful nationalist parties. Connected by family ties, the families witnessed the rise of power of Fascism and Nazism and found themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, at the centre of Hitler's political scheming. The two episodes will recount the various families' ambiguous and difficult dealings with these untrustworthy powers. After long procrastination, when war finally broke out, each royal family had to make a crucial decision for their country: whether to resist or collaborate.
- This film is a tribute to the men and women who, like Simon Wiesenthal, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, devoted their lives to the hunt for former Nazis. Composed of archival documents, it opens with images of German civilians forced by the Allies to bury the dead of one of the last massacres of deportees in May 1945. Simon Wiesenthal tracked down Eichmann, the organizer of the Final Solution, until his arrest in South America. The Klarsfelds will meet Hagen, Lischka, Heinrichson, in charge of the Gestapo in Paris, as well as Barbie, the head of the Gestapo de Lyon. Beate Klarsfeld will publicly slap the German Chancellor Kiesinger, a former senior Nazi propaganda official. Finally, former French minister Maurice Papon will be tried for his participation in the deportation. As Mathieu Kassovitz says, touched by the film, he wanted to lend his voice to the film: "We can no longer say now that it didn't exist".
- We travel back in time to Tokyo's past, captured in monochrome films, but when we meet everyday people living in that age, we begin to see them in color.
- The plot of the documentary reveals the role of Azerbaijan and its people in defeating Nazism and the strategic importance of the Azerbaijani oil during the war.
- How the many voyages of Matisse influenced his artistic vision.
- From Icarus to the Concorde - Man's desire to fly.
- Through archival footage and testimonies, this documentary describes the daily lives of the French population and German soldiers during the Occupation, between 1940 and 1944.
- Goering, supreme commander of the air force, a paradoxical warlord, who multiplied the attempts at peace behind the scenes, will commit irreparable errors in battles that will change the course of history, and precipitate his final fall.
- In 1916, while France was bogged down in trench wars, a young engineer was inventing a revolutionary propeller. Today, Dassault Aviation is among the jewels of the worldwide aeronautics industry.
- May 8, 1945: WWII comes to a close. The last Nazi soldiers attempted to escape their inevitable fates. Allied troops were parading through liberated towns. The Soviets invaded conquered territories. Out of these last weeks, a new world order came about and a new era: The Cold War.
- Discovering Paris under the German occupation through the story of an SS soldier and more generally of Wehrmacht soldiers allows us to follow the daily life on the German side. These soldiers enjoyed privileged status, during their stay, they were led to believe that they belong to a social elite, a status unreachable back in Germany during peacetime. And who better than a German who has led such lifestyle to serve as a common thread and tell this story?
- Isabelle Clarke captures in the film a portrait of this Tiger of the Press Magazine in Europe. Axel Ganz, who started from nothing, has built in twenty-five years, the second publishing conglomerate magazine in France.
- A blend of boldness and tradition, Empress Michiko of Japan succeeded in doing what no other Japanese empress had done before her: taking control of her life despite her lack of official power. She transformed the timid respect shown by an entire nation to its emperor into a real and sincere attachment. Installed at the heart of Japanese society when the country was in a state of collapse after World War II, and then launched on a frantic course to achieve modernity, over a period of 60 years, Michiko followed an unexpected path: that of encouraging the Japanese people to indulge in greater introspection in order to build a united, peaceful and enlightened Japan.
- 20197.8 (69)TV EpisodeIn the summer of 1945, the world celebrated as the atrocities of WWII were left behind. But with new global leaders rising up, a new war was beginning.
- 20197.9 (65)TV Episode1947 and the world is at the mercy of its leaders with Truman, Ho Chi Minh, Staling and Mao Zedong each preparing to go to battle for the ultimate power.
- 20197.8 (57)TV EpisodeSeptember 1950, and the war against Communism was being fought across Asia. While a beaten Truman considers the bomb, Stalin increases his influence.
- March 1953: Stalin is dead, and in Asia the heated conflicts are ending. But with foreign troops leaving the region, Ho Chi Minh formulates a new plan.
- After denouncing Stalin's crimes in 1956, Khrushchev confounded the worlds with his behavior. But he wasn't nearly as soft as he portrayed himself.