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1. Nova (1974– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Science documentaries about various topics.
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Stacy Keach, Eric Meyers
Votes: 3,098
2. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
Stars: Samuel West, Linda Hunt, Gert Heidenreich, Horst Günter Marx
Votes: 4,655
3.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Das Jahrhundertverbrechen
(2015)
Not Rated | Documentary
Directors: Florian Dedio, Blanche Finger, William Karel | Stars: Aharon Appelfeld, Georges Bensoussan, Michael Berenbaum, Peter Black
Votes: 7
4. Annihilation (2014–2015)
Not Rated | 438 min | Documentary
70 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, our eight-part film about the destruction of Europe's Jews sets out to explore a story whose roots go back to before the start of the 20th century, and which is still playing out today.
Stars: David Cesarani, Christopher Browning, Johann Chapoutot, Dan Michman
Votes: 138
5.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Ancient History
(1997)
TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A new law suspending the statute of limitations on war atrocities has Kavanagh prosecuting a Polish doctor who stands accused of war crimes.
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: John Thaw, Jonathan Adams, Robin Bailey, Gillian Bevan
Votes: 97
6.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Liberation & Revenge
(2005)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
In 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau. As other liberations occur in the following months, the world is appalled. Surviving Jews face horrors as they try to return to their lives, and few SS-men are found and put on trial.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Vasily Gromadsky
Votes: 168
7.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Frenzied Killing
(2005)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
More people are killed in 1944 than ever before at Auschwitz. The Nazis try to sow seeds of confusion amongst the Allies in the East and Western Allies make decisions about negotiating with the Nazis about the Jews and bombing the camp.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Peretz Revesz
Votes: 166
8.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Corruption
(2005)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
By 1943, corruption is running rampant at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp also gains another source of income - clothes and valuables taken from Jews arriving to be gassed.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Dario Gabbai
Votes: 174
9.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Factories of Death
(2005)
TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
The year 1942 is to be the most significant of 'the Final Solution' as the Nazis now begin to comb western Europe, even taking Jews from as far afield as the British Channel Islands.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Annette Muller
Votes: 182
10.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Surprising Beginnings
(2005)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
German commanders discover the efficiency of gassing prisoners, and Auschwitz transforms from a small backwater camp for those resisting the Nazi occupation of Poland to a large scale extermination camp for Jews.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Dario Gabbai
Votes: 229
11.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Orders & Initiatives
(2005)
TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
Hoss deals with complications arising from the makeshift gas chamber and increasing demand as the Nazis begin to scour all of Europe for more people to bring to Auschwitz and kill.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Kazimierz Smolen
Votes: 188
12.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Escape from Auschwitz
(2008)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, History, War
Follow the route used by Vrba and Wetzler in their "great feat of escapology" when fleeing the Auschwitz death camps.
Director: Alex Nikolic-Dunlop | Stars: Yehudi Bauer, David Cesarani, Martin Gilbert, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 51
13. Nazi Collaborators (2010– )
51 min | Documentary, History
As shown on TV, Nazi Collaborators explores the fascinating and often shocking tales of how individuals from all walks of life: the privileged; the political elite; ordinary working men; ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Greg Stebner, Rolf von Sydow, David Cesarani
Votes: 105
14. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War
Mysteries involving notable historical events, people and locations are scientifically examined.
Stars: Liev Schreiber, Jay O. Sanders, Salima Ikram, Andrew Lambert
Votes: 653
15. 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
16.
Nazi Collaborators (2010– )
Episode:
Hitler's Killer Police
(2010)
Documentary, History
Details of collaborators in Ukraine and Lithuania are examined.
Director: Sarah Jobling | Stars: Alisdair Simpson, David Cesarani, John Demjanjuk, Hermann Göring
Votes: 11
17.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Menschenjagd
(2014)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
By June 1940, Nazi Germany had occupied Paris. France was cut in two: north of the demarcation line was the German-occupied zone, to the south was a zone headed by Marshal Pétain, whose ... See full summary »
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel, Florian Dedio | Stars: Olivier Breitman, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Philippe Pétain
Votes: 12
18.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Mordfabriken
(2014)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
Leading historians reflect on the barbarity of the Holocaust. By 1941, the Nazis were using gas as the hideous method for mass killings at their death camps - including Auschwitz.
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel, Florian Dedio | Stars: Olivier Breitman, David Cesarani, Ian Kershaw, Peter Longerich
Votes: 14
19.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Deportation
(2015)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
In the Warsaw ghetto, Emanuel Ringelblum and the other members of the documentary group Oyneg Shabbos collected whatever they could to recount life in the ghetto; newspaper articles, ... See full summary »
Directors: Florian Dedio, Blanche Finger, William Karel | Stars: Olivier Breitman, Annette Wieviorka, David G. Marwell, Eleonora Bergman
Votes: 13
20.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Untergang
(2015)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
By summer 1942, deportations were systematic across those parts of Europe occupied by the Nazis. The convoys which arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau came from Poland, but also from western and ... See full summary »
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel, Florian Dedio | Stars: Olivier Breitman, Otto Dov Kulka, Piotr Setkiewicz, Christopher Browning
Votes: 14
21. Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A crusty barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.
Stars: John Thaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Nicholas Jones, Cliff Parisi
Votes: 1,089
22. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
PG | 122 min | Documentary, History, War
The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
Director: Mark Jonathan Harris | Stars: Judi Dench, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel, Eva Hayman
Votes: 1,963 | Gross: $0.37M
23.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Gerechtigkeit
(2015)
Not Rated | 46 min | Documentary
On 20 November 1945, the trial of the top brass of the Third Reich, including Göring, opened in Nuremberg, the city where the anti-Jewish laws were drawn up in 1935. One year later, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel, Florian Dedio | Stars: Olivier Breitman, Christopher Browning, Dan Michman, David Cesarani
Votes: 15
24.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Terror
(2014)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
Germany, 1933. Adolf Hitler, at the head of the Nazi Party, has just become Chancellor and is faced with leading a republic in the throes of economic crisis and rampant inflation. Hitler ... See full summary »
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel, Florian Dedio | Stars: Olivier Breitman, Aharon Appelfeld, Saul Friedländer, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 16
25.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Ghetto
(2014)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
In 1938, the Third Reich, which had just annexed Austria, was applying a policy of systematic expulsion of foreign Jews resident on its territory. By 1 January 1939, there were no longer ... See full summary »
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel, Florian Dedio | Stars: Olivier Breitman, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Dina Porat
Votes: 14
26.
Annihilation (2014–2015)
Episode:
Verdrängung
(2015)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
Last in the deeply moving series about the Holocaust. While the hunt to find surviving Nazis continues today, efforts are being made to preserve the memory of their tragic victims.
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel, Florian Dedio | Stars: Olivier Breitman, David Silberklang, Yitzak Arad, Yoram Kaniuk
Votes: 11
27.
Revealed (2002– )
Episode:
Auschwitz: The Great Escape
(2007)
50 min | Documentary
Using breathtaking drama reconstruction and shocking archive, this film tells the story of Rudolf Vrba. In 1944 he escaped from Auschwitz, trekked across occupied Poland evading recapture ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Nikolic-Dunlop | Stars: Sean Pertwee, Yehuda Bauer, David Cesarani, Martin Gilbert
Votes: 28
28. Nazi Underworld (2011– )
Documentary
Stars: Allan Corduner, David Cesarani, Guy Walters, Timothy Ryback
Votes: 141
29. Revealed (2002– )
60 min | Documentary
The real Nazi Temple Of Doom! Discover the link to Adolf Hitler's search for the Holy Grail and Heinrich Himmler's shrine to the SS. Find out how a group of experts pieced together the ... See full summary »
Stars: Andrew Cook, Piers Gibbon, Donald Rumbelow, Mark Halliley
Votes: 59
30.
Infrarouge (2006– )
Episode:
Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann
(2011)
90 min | Documentary, History
This historical documentary follows the events of the monumental Adolf Eichmann trial: a turning point in the collective memory of the Holocaust.
Director: Michaël Prazan | Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Rafi Eitan, David Cesarani, Avraham Ben Dor
Votes: 170
31.
Nazi Underworld (2011– )
Episode:
Hitler's Family
(2011)
46 min | Documentary
Directors: Florian M. Beierl, Oliver Halmburger, Thomas Staehler, Tim Versteegen | Stars: Allan Corduner, Adolf Hitler, Timothy Ryback, Wolfgang Eisenmenger
Votes: 19
32. Infrarouge (2006– )
Documentary, History
Infrarouge is a popular and often challenging documentary program broadcast on Tuesday evenings in the second and third part of the evening on French national channel France 2 since 2006.
Stars: Alexandra Alévêque, Simone Veil, Olivier Wieviorka, Olivia Mokiejewski
Votes: 41
33. Secrets of the Third Reich (2014)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, War
Little-known events that played a large role in determining the outcome of World War II are revealed in this documentary series.
Stars: Allan Corduner, Sönke Neitzel, Richard John Evans, Nick Hewitt
Votes: 62
34.
Nazi Underworld (2011– )
Episode:
Hitler's Henchman
(2011)
Documentary
Directors: Friedrich Scherer, Ricarda Schlosshan, Tim Versteegen | Stars: David Cesarani, Allan Corduner, Rainer Decker, Katrin Himmler
Votes: 21
35. Adolf Eichmann - Begegnungen mit einem Mörder (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Clara Glynn | Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Shlomo Nagar, Hanns-Peter Herz, Gabriel Bach
Votes: 21
36.
Nazi Underworld (2011– )
Episode:
Hitler's Money
(2011)
Documentary
Adolf Hitler's prewar finances are well documented through German tax records. Although he presented himself as a man of humble means, in truth he amassed a fortune through the sale of his ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexander Berkel, Stefan Brauburger, Tim Versteegen | Stars: Götz Aly, David Cesarani, Allan Corduner, Angelika Enderlein
Votes: 19
37.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Holocaust on Trial
(2000)
TV-PG | Documentary
An account of Holocaust denier David Irving, and his 1999 libel trial against historian Deborah Lipstadt who challenged his deceptions.
Director: Leslie Woodhead | Stars: Michael Byrne, John Castle, David Cesarani, Jeremy Clyde
Votes: 12
38. The Holocaust on Trial (2000 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, Drama, History
An investigation of the evidence for Hitler's Final Solution, together with a dramatic reconstruction of key courtroom exchanges in the libel case lost by the historian David Irving, who ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Woodhead | Stars: Ian Holm, John Castle, Michael Byrne, Jeremy Clyde
Votes: 32
39. The Media Show (1987–1991)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Emma Freud, Muriel Gray, John Hegarty, Judith Williamson
Votes: 30
40. Open Space (1983–1995)
29 min | Documentary
British TV series in which the public make programmes under their own editorial control.
Stars: Michael Mansfield, Jon Alpert, Margo MacDonald, Julio Finn
41. Heart of the Matter (1979–2000)
45 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Series of documentaries and debates on ethical and moral issues.
Stars: Joan Bakewell, David Jessel, Peter France, David Lomax
42. Week in Week Out (1964– )
22 min | Documentary
Investigating the stories that matter across Wales.
Stars: Vincent Kane, Tim Rogers, Gareth Jones, Bob Humphrys
43.
Heart of the Matter (1979–2000)
Episode:
Special: The Legacy of Nuremberg
(1995)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Stars: Joan Bakewell, David Cesarani, Muhamed Sacirbey, Desmond Tutu
44.
Open Space (1983–1995)
Episode:
Bringing the Holocaust Home
(1995)
Documentary
Star: David Cesarani
45.
Secrets of the Third Reich (2014)
Episode:
Nazi Gold
TV-14 | Documentary, War
In April 1945, 2 armed trains leave Berlin, carrying all of the remaining Reichsbank assets. It amounts to billions of Reichsmarks. Following is a convoy of trucks carrying more than 9 tons of gold destined for the 'Alpine Fortress'.
Director: Oliver Halmburger | Stars: David Cesarani, Allan Corduner, Konrad Dannenberg, Hans Fricke
46.
The Media Show (1987–1991)
Episode:
Conspiracy Stories in the USA
(1991)
Documentary
Director: Edmund Coulthard | Stars: Emma Freud, David Cesarani, Mary Ferrell, Jim Lesar
47.
Week in Week Out (1964– )
Episode:
Last General
(1994)
Documentary
Director: David Simmonds | Stars: Penny Roberts, Alf Davies, Alf Tombs, Bert Evans