Immortal Youth

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Umberto Lenzi

Cast

Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss, Curd Jürgens

This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-year-old boy became a high-ranking member of the Hitler youth movement during World War II. The story is told in his own words. This film originally aired as part of the "America Undercover" series on HBO.

Runtime

31m

Director

Arthur Holch

Cast

Alfons Heck

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During the hunt for a forced labourer who is on the run, Günter catches him and watches as he is shot to death. He proudly accepts the award of an Iron Cross before being shipped to the nearby front as part ...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Heiner Carow

Cast

Gert Krause-Melzer, Viktor Perevalov, Dorothea Meissner

This story follows one man's quest to uncover the origins and reveal the mysteries of a possible Holocaust artifact some historians now say never existed: lampshades made of human skin. When the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina receded, they left behind a wrecked New Orleans and a strange looking lamp that an illicit dealer claimed wa...

Runtime

45m

Director

Steven Hoggard

Cast

Liev Schreiber

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Lordan Zafranović

Cast

Rade Šerbedžija, Petar Božović, Miodrag Krivokapić