05: Frenzied Killing | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

01: Helped into Power | Nazis: A Warning from History

Documentary series examining how Hitler came to power. By January 1933, Germany had voted for a chancellor who was open...

02: Chaos and Consent | Nazis: A Warning from History

A look at the extraordinary popularity of both Hitler and the Nazis, as well as the astonishing degree of voluntary sup...

S01E02: Hitler's Last Days | Days That Shook the World

A dramatised anatomy of the final hours of Adolf Hitler, based on accounts of five witnesses who were in a secret unde...

20: Genocide | The World at War

This edition recounts Himmler's plans to realise Hitler's vision of a pure Aryan Germany. Narrated by Laurence Olivier.

S01E03: Night of the Long Knives | Rise of the Nazis

Threatened by the ambition of SA leader Ernst Röhm, Hitler is persuaded by Himmler to destroy Röhm and his stormtroopers...

The Reichstag fire and the Enabling Act | Rise of the Nazis

Goring blames the communists for the Reichstag fire, giving Rohm and the SA an excuse to arrest what is left of t...

S01E01: Politics | Rise of the Nazis

Delving into the corridors of power where Germany's top political mastermind sees an opportunity to use the popularity of the Nazis for ...

01: Surprise Beginnings | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

Explores the beginnings of Auschwitz, and how the camp was originally intended for a purpose very diffe...

06: Liberation and Revenge | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

Last in series about the Nazi concentration camp looks at the fate of the remaining prisoners and th...

03: Factories of Death | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

With the increase in killing at Auschwitz and nearby Treblinka, people are showing tremendous courage, l...

S01E02: The First Six Months in Power | Rise of the Nazis

At the start of 1933, Hitler is the chancellor of Germany, but he does not have absolute power. He sets his sights ...

Downfall | Der Untergang (2004)

As defeat looms, the increasingly unhinged Adolf Hitler readies himself for the end and makes his final declarations to a dwindling crowd of ...

The creation of the Gestapo | Rise of the Nazis

Himmler and Goring fight for control of the newly formed Gestapo, responsible for the preventative arrest of Jews, political ...

01: A New Germany | The World at War

Laurence Olivier narrates the acclaimed documentary series telling the story of World War II. Stricken by humiliating defeat and emergin...

The SA and the appeal of the Nazis | Rise of the Nazis

Von Schleicher persuades Hindenburg to bring forward elections in order to harness the power of the SA, but underestim...

Reflections on Hitler's rise to power | Rise of the Nazis

Hitler was finally appointed Chancellor in 1933, in a move that marked the downfall of German democracy.

03: In the Shadow of Hitler | Art of Germany

Andrew Graham-Dixon concludes his exploration of German art by investigating the dark times of the 20th century, dominated by fa...

Episode 2 | D-Day: The Last Heroes

The concluding part of historian Dan Snow's documentary series tells the powerful and heroic stories of those who risked their lives on th...

03: Spare Parts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of transplant surgery, from a Nazi sympat...

06: Fighting to the End | Nazis: A Warning from History

Examining the rise of the Nazis and their impact. Fear and hatred of Bolshevism drove many Germans to fight to the bi...