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1. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)

292 min | Documentary, History, War

An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Buchner, Jutta Rüdiger, Günther Ruschin

Votes: 1,722

2. Treblinka's Last Witness (2012 TV Movie)

Documentary

Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after ... See full summary »

Directors: Dollan Cannell, Spike Geilinger | Stars: Richard Lintern, Kalman Teigman, David Cesarani, Samuel Willenberg

Votes: 102

3. Because I Was a Painter (2013)

104 min | Documentary, History

In 1945, when the Allies liberated the concentration camps, they discovered thousands of secretly created artworks.

Director: Christophe Cognet | Stars: Yehuda Bacon, José Fosty, Walter Spitzer, Samuel Willenberg

Votes: 30

4. Samuel (2014)

75 min | Documentary

The film presents the extraordinary life of Samuel Willenberg, a sculptor and painter, prisoner of Treblinka, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, recipient of the Virtuti Militari Medal and... See full summary »

Director: Jan Kidawa-Blonski | Stars: Samuel Willenberg, Ada 'Krysia' Willenberg, Orit Willenberg-Giladi

5. A pesar de Treblinka (2002)

90 min | Documentary

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Director: Gerardo Stawsky | Stars: Chil Rajchman, Kalman Teigman, Samuel Willenberg

Votes: 7

6. The Last Witness (2003)

51 min | Documentary, Biography, War

He escaped from the Treblinka concentration camp, along with 400 other Jews who successfully fought back against their Nazi captors. (Only 67 of them survived the war.) Now Samuel ... See full summary »

Director: Michal Nekanda-Trepka | Star: Samuel Willenberg

7. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
Episode: Fighting to the End (1997)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

In the summer of 1943 the Italians, seeing which way the war was going, voted Mussolini out of office and declared the war over. Why couldn't the Germans do the same? Why did it take the ... See full summary »

Director: Laurence Rees | Stars: Samuel West, Mario Mondello, Karl Boehm-Tettelbach, Ulrich de Maizière

Votes: 54

8. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
Episode: Chaos and Consent (1997)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

If the Germans are famous for one quality, it is efficiency. Yet the Nazi administration of Germany during the 1930s was characterized by radical chaos.

Director: Laurence Rees | Stars: Fritz Arlt, Rudi Bamber, Gerda Bernhardt, Uwe Bitzel

Votes: 58

9. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
Episode: The Road to Treblinka (1997)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

With access to extraordinary new material from Lithuania, including an interview with a member of the Nazi killing squads, this program examines how the Nazi could commit acts that have altered forever of the depths of human cruelty.

Director: Laurence Rees | Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Buchner, Christine Von Amsberg, Wilhelm Gunsilius

Votes: 53

10. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
Episode: The Wild East (1997)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, History, War

Poland was to become the epicenter of Nazi brutality - the place where Nazism achieved its purest and most bestial form. This is the story of the first two years of the Nazi occupation of ... See full summary »

Director: Laurence Rees | Stars: Samuel West, Danuta Grocholska, Charles Bleeker Kohlsaat, Wilhelm Moses

Votes: 55

11. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
Episode: The Wrong War (1997)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

Hitler admired Great Britain more than any other country. How was it possible, then, that he ended up fighting that country, and allied to the one country he had intended to take land from, Russia?

Directors: Laurence Rees, Tilman Remme | Stars: Fritz Arlt, Rudi Bamber, Gerda Bernhardt, Uwe Bitzel

Votes: 55

12. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
Episode: Helped into Power (1997)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

How was it possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power?

Director: Laurence Rees | Stars: Samuel West, Herbert Richter, Fridolin Von Spaun, Eugene Leviné

Votes: 67